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The Karakuş tumulus ıs located on a hill twelve kilometeres to the north of the town of Kahta. Local people gave the hill its name. In Turkish the meaning of Karakuş is “black bird”. The monumental tomb was originally surrounded by three groups of two columns. On top of one of them a black eagle standing.
King Mithradates II, the sun of Antiochos I, arranged this monumental tomb as a Hierathesion for his mother. When other female members of his family died, he also buried them in the tumulus.
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KARAKUS 
