Just outside Selçuk, a brief detour towards the village of Belevi will bring you to the remains of a mausoleum that may have been the last resting place of the Seleucid ruler Antiochus II (r.261-246BC) who died near Ephesus. Alternatively it may have housed the remains of Lysimachus (r.305-281 BC), one of Alexander the Great’s generals who moved the site of Ephesus from Ayasoluk (Selçuk) to the one on which it eventually developed.
The sarcophagus found inside the mausoleum is now housed in the Ephesus Museum in Selçuk.
Transport into
Belevi is 10km outside Selçuk on the road to Ödemiş. Tire buses pass by the junction signed to the mausoleum which is close by.
