Mausoleum Mausoleum A Mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the interment space or burial chamber of a deceased person or people. A monument without the interment is a cenotaph. A mausoleum may be considered a type of tomb, or the tomb may be considered to be within the mausoleum. The word derives from the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (near modern-day Bodrum in Turkey), the grave of King Mausolus, the Persian satrap of Caria, whose large tomb was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Historically, mausolea were, and still may be, large and impressive constructions
Belevi Mausoleum Ephesian sanctuary of Artemisia; is 16 km or 10 miles northeast of Selçuk and is 29 km from Kuşadası. Latitude: 38.014624 N or 38°00´52.646399" N Longitude: 27.472097 E or 27°28´19.5492" E The Belevi Mausoleum is the second largest mausoleum in Anatolia after the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus which it resembles and it is also the second highest tomb house of ancient Anatolia. The influence of this tomb seems to have been widespread throughout the Hellenistic world directly or indirectly in the construction of other royal tombs. According to archaeological dating in ornaments and ceramics from the monument, the mausoleum was first