Archaeologists discovered A dazzling golden crown, two gold necklaces, two bracelets, and three rings. The gold crown comprised myrtle leaves, flowers, and fruit tied with thin gold cords around a centrally located rosette on a crown hoop. Two bracelets were formed by bending a gold stock rod, which was then hammered into an elliptical shape, with antelope heads facing each other to each end. Also among the burial items were three rings—one of gold, inscribed with the image of a palmette. A second ring features a red carnelian gem with an inscribed portrait of a woman or God Apollon on one side and a scarab on the obverse face. A third ring exhibits a standing Persian warrior on a smoke-colored chalcedony gem.

In addition, gold dress decorations in different forms and a black glazed jug were among the important works discovered in the tomb.

Jewels and other finds in the tomb gave the tomb dating 360-325 BC, the end of Mausolus’s reign, and after Alexander the Great left the administration of Halicarnassus to the Ada.

The experts at the University of Manchester did the facial reconstruction of the skull discovered in the tomb. The resulting portrait was similar to the portraits of Queen Ada found in the temple of Athena in Priene and the Mausoleum, and the date of the jewels found matched the period in which Queen Ada lived. In the beginning, some people even thought that the tomb might belong to Queen Ada, the sister of Mausolus, wife of Idrius. Ada, who became a satrap after the death of Idrius, was exiled to the ancient city of Alinda by her brother Piksadoros. Then she became the ruler of Caria between 334-326 with the help of Alexander the Great, who captured Caria.