mausoleum

     

A mausoleum (plural: mausolea) is an external free-staning building constructed as a monument enclosing the interment space or burial chamber of a deceased person or persons. A mausoleum may be considered a type of tomb or the tomb may be considered to be within the mausoleum. A Christian mausoleum sometimes includes a chapel.

Trivia about mausoleum

  • This place is a tomb: a big one!
  • After the king of Caria died in 353 B.C., his widow had this memorial built at Halicarnassus
  • Completed around 1650, the main building seen here was built to serve as one of these
  • Located at Halicarnassus, this monumental marble tomb was built for a king who died in 353 B.C.
  • This ancient wonder built for the ruler of Caria gave us the generic term for any large tomb
  • Type of structure named for a 353 B.C. monument built by Queen Artemisia to honor her dead husband
  • It was the huge white marble Wonder located at Halicarnassus

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