The-mausoleum-of-halicarnassus, Turkey
mausoleum: a grand sepulchral monument. Artemesia, widow of Mausolus, king of Caria in Asia Minor, erected to her husband's memory in 353 B.C. a prodigious tomb at Halicarnassus. One of the Seven Wonders of the World, the Mausoleum reached a height of one hundred feet. On its top stood a statuary group including Mausolus and Artemesia.
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