There is a passage from the wooden bridge, of which original is armorial bearing bridge, to the inclined stone road. Inside of the ditch was partially being filled of water before the construction of the harbor. The aggregate wall at right side was made when the castle was used as a prison. The building, which has thick walls and inclined roof, is a place for protection of the guns. The ditch was made for protection against the attacks to come from east in 1913, as it is understood from the armorial bearings on it. The gun slits are being seen through ditch and harbor direction. They are close to the sea level in order to be able to fire to the water section of the ships to enter to the harbor.
Today, the northern ditch is used as an area where the Bodrum Festival and theatre plays are being held. The grave seen behind the ditch, at the back of the sitting places belongs to Rome Period.
At the top of the 2nd door, there is a triple armorial bearing group on which there is a crowned eagle. There is a single armorial bearing at the left side of the triple armorial bearing group. An unused door exists at left side of this door. And there are two armorial bearings on the door. You may reach to the courtyard after passing the 2nd door. There is a harbor tower at one side of the courtyard looking towards the sea. The entrance of gun protection area is also located here. There is a Greek inscription on the door lento concerning the emperor Hadrianus. The gun protection area is still being used as an art gallery.

The 3rd door is a well-protected door. There are door gate and oil holes in the wall for iron plate movable for up and down directions. Two armorial bearings exist at left side of the 3rd door. There are armorial bearings of the dervish and Guy de Blanchfort (1512 - 1513) at right side. It unknown to which chevalier the below crossed armorial bearing belonged.
One may reach to the western ditch after passing this door. All of the green stones seen on the castle walls at right were brought from Mausoleion.

There is a statue of Roman commander in the niche of the harbor tower, at opposite side of the 4th door. Such statute bodies were widespread. Their heads were being made separately and when a new commander came, the head of the old commander was being taken from the body and replaced with the new commander's head.
The 4th door opens to a vault having stairs. There are four armorial bearings on this door. When you pass through the tree - lined road in the western ditch, instead of climbing upstairs from the 4th door, you may see altars, tombs and various works collected from Halikarnassos and its environs. The stone wall beginning from the cistern at left belongs to Turkish Castle built in the middle of XIV. Century. Later, the chevaliers raised the walls with Mausoleion's stones and enlarged the castle. The chevaliers did not use the ditches as transportation way; they used to reach the inner castle by means of suspension bridges. The pillar of the suspension bridge made of Mausoleion's green stones can bee seen on the southern wall. The wall at both sides of the pillar was built when the castle was used as a prison. The stone stairs at the end of the ditch was also added to the castle later. The embossment on the wall at right side of the stairs shows Saint George killing a dragon. The original place of this embossment is not here. It is brought from the inner castle, from the northern wall of Italian tower. There are three armorial bearings below Saint George figure. When you climb the stairs, you see the cross and united armorial bearing of Piere d'Aubusson at the middle of the door. He worked as üstad-i azam (the chief master) in Rhodes between 1476 and 1503. He visited Bodrum Castle many times. He was awarded by the pope with the rank of cardinal helmet as he imprisoned Cem Sultan who took refuge of him. The tasselled cardinal helmet is seen on the armorial bearing. The armorial bearing is a two-sided red cross on yellow ground. There are two more armorial bearings other than this.
The small tower at right side beyond the door is the control tower of suspension bridge. There is the monogram of II. Mahmut on the outer wall surface of this tower. Reckoned from the Hegira 1235 is written on this monogram. This monogram is written on a chevalier armorial bearing, as it is understood from the Malta cross.
In order to enter the inner castle, you should turn back and follow the narrow road. There is an armorial bearing on a high place, on the castle wall at left side. A photograph related with this armorial bearing is being exhibited from the loopholes, which are closed later.
The Latin inscription on the 5th door says "My Master protect us while sleeping and rescue while awake. Nobody can protect us without your protection". There is a triple armorial bearing group below the inscription. You may reach to the southern side of the castle, when you pass this door. There are two castle walls here. Two tombs are located across the 7th door, used as drinking basin before. There is a triple armorial bearing group on 7th floor.
You may enter to the inner castle by means of a vaulted corridor. There is a cistern under this corridor. The previous armorial bearing group was embroidered on the entrance of the inner castle. There are 14 cisterns in the inner castle and under the chapel. The necessary water was obtained from these cisterns when the castle was besieged. Some of these cisterns are still being used.
It is possible to see all trees and flowers of archaic world and the region in the inner courtyard. One of these trees is bay - tree. (Daphne in Greek and Laurus in Latin language). The tree known as oleander in Anatolia ornaments the castle with its flowers and leaves which do not fall in summer and winter. There are plane trees in the middle of the courtyard of which shadows are found healthy by the kings and aristocrats. Among the trees grown in the region, there are olive trees which carry great importance in archaic world and myrtles which are used in many ceremonies. Myrtle was the holy tree of Aphrodite. Pigeon among the birds and rose among the flowers were vowed to Aphrodite. To meet with the salutation of pigeons and to smell the roses may remind Aphrodite to the visitors of the castle. Mandrake is a plan being exhausted. For this reason, this plant is being grown in the castle with a great care. This plant is known to be used for anesthesia. It is possible to see any kind of flower and trees suitable for Mediterranean climate including silk cloves blooming the most beautiful purple in summer, geranium with various colors, various cactuses, begonias and Cyprus acacia, pines, pomegranate trees and mulberry trees.

BRONZE AGE SHIPWRECKS
The hall consists of three sections. Just inside the entry, finds from the Cape Gelidonya (late 13 th century BC) and Seytan Deresi (16 th Century B.C) shipwrecks are exhibited.
On the left side of this room are artifacts gathered by the first scientific shipwreck excavation in the world, at Cape Gelidonya. The site of the wreck was shown to the archaologists by Captain Kemal Aras, a Bodrum sponge

boat owner. The shipwreck was excavated in 1960 under the direction of George F.Bass. This was a Syrian merchant's trading vessel. The artifacts excavated from the wreck shed light on the international relations of the period.
With the copper ingots loaded in Cyprus, the vessel sank at Besadalar (Five Islands), opposite Cape Gelidonya between Finike and Antalya.
Captain's Log Book;
"From Syria, we started our voyage through the eastern Mediterranean in my 13-14 meter long vessel. We stopped at Cyprus to get approximately one ton of metal cargo. Copper ingots shaped like dried ox-hides were wrapped in mats and carefully loaded on board. We put bronze tools and scrap metal in baskets with shrubs and branches beneath to protect our hull. Now, five of the crew are sitting at the stern, with an oil lamp for light. I am on deck getting myself ready for trading at one of the harbors we will approach in a couple of hours. Tied to my wrist is a cylindrical stone seal from my father that I use for formal stamps. Perhaps my son will one day use this seal. My sailors carry scarabs for good luck. They play at knuckle bones in spare moments during this long voyage. Whetstones are used to sharpen the tools which will be offered for sale.
By following the land, we are heading for Cape Gelidonya on the Anatolian shore, watching the west current and the wind. In a few hours we will reach Phoenikus (Finike) and get some drinking water. We have to pass first through Bes Adalar (Five Islands), which is a very dangerous place for sailors."
As the ship passed between the two islands nearest the mainland, due to the strong current it hit the pinnacle of rock that nears the surface of the sea. The vessel sant to a depth of 26-28 meters, and Cape Gelidonya became the grave of one more vessel.
The large jars (pithoi) and amphoras at the right side of the first room were shown to the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (I.N.A) by sponge diver Cumhur Ilik. The wreck was excavated in 1975 by the I.N.A. team of Prof. Dr. George F. Bass, who dates the pottery to the 16 th century BC.

Captain's Log Book;
"We started sailing after loading my small boat with six pithoi and different types of amphoras, of a uniformly coarse brown fabric, from a small ceramic workshop next to Gökova Bay. We were taking them to a near-by harbor. There were strong winds as we sailed in Gökova Bay. When we reached Seytan Deresi (Devil Creek), a water spout turned my boat upside down. The hull spilled out its cargo and floated away."

The cargo remained in the sand on the bottom of the sea at a depth of 33 meters until it was excavated by the Institute of Nautical Archaeology.
In the second hall, the vessel that sank at Uluburun (Great Cape) is shown at harbor. The remains of the ship are shown under water as they were found. This wreck was discovered in 1982 by Mehmet Çakir, a sponge diver from Bodrum. The scientific investigation of the wreck was begun in October 1982 by a team led by Bodrum Museum Director T. Oguz Alpözen.
The site was excavated between 1984 and 1994, first by Dr. George F. Bass and then by Dr. Cemal Pulak, for the Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M Universty.
Captain's Log Book;
"...as Captain of this ship, I am proud that my king has entrusted to me the royal treasures in our cargo hold; delicate gold and silver pendants, bracelets and rings from the jewellers of Canaan and Egypt, rare ebony log transported from tropical Africa, amber beads from lands so far to the north that few men known the source, and the teeth of elephants and hip-popotamuses hunted along the shores of my own country.
"Shall I drink a toast with this great golden goblet?"
After leaving the coast of Syria behind us, we sail westward to Cyprus for additional cargo. Porters brought on board 365 ingots of pure copper, smelted from the ore of the island's famed mines. In all the weigh ten tons.
"Mixed with a ton of tin ingots already on my ship, this copper will make enough bronze to outfit an entire army! In thanking his gods for delivery of this wealth, the king who receives it will surely burn as incense some of the resin my ship is carrying in a hundred Canaanite jars. But I am instructed not to tell you the name of the king to whom I am to deliver this wealth even my crew does not know our destination. They know only that we continue to sail westward.
I have enstrusted the safety of our voyage to our own patron goddess. We carry her gold-covered bronze figure at the bow of the ship. In celebrating her magnificence, my crew dance to the sound of the bronze cymbals, ivory trumpet, and lutes of tortoise-shell we carry.
We stop for the night at the entrance to the huge bay that cuts into the land where the Hittites live. We will hug the coast of the bay till we round the southern-most point of this land. But now some of my sailors are putting out their fishing nets. The Mycenaean envoy who accompanies us pours wine from his own pitcher into his own cup. I will weigh carefully anything he sells with the animal-shaped weights I carry with me: one of them is the finest ever seen in my time.
Now the sun is rising and my men hoist the huge stone anchor that has held us firmly through the night. The wind is rising, but our stout hull, its cedar planks joined tightly together, will carry us safely through the waves. I do not fear pirates, as we are well armed with swords, daggers, spears, stone maces and bows and arrows.
Now we must round the southernmost protrusion of land, the Great Point, but the wind is suddenly coming from the south. My helmsman tries to turn us away from the sheer cliff ahead. We must furl our sail.
It is too late. We have struck the cliff. The ship and all on board are sinking in 33 fathoms of water. We have finally reached land, but it is not our original destination.
For bringing my cargo to you, I would like to thank the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (I.N.A) at Texas A&M University. I also wish to thank Minister of Culture, M.Istemihan Talay, the undersecretary, Fikret Nesip Üçcan, who asked a scenario to be written around the artifacts, the Director of the General Directorate of Monuments and Museums, Dr. Alpay Pasinli; and the Director of the Center of Administration of Circulating Capital Funds of the Ministry of Culture, Yemlihan Atalay. Welcome to all."