Mausoleum at Halicarnassus top was a quadriga: four massive horses pulling a chariot in which rode images of Mausolus and Artemisia. Modern historians have pointed out that two years would not be enough time to decorate and build such an extravagant building. Therefore, it is believed that construction was begun by Mausolus before his death or continued by the next leaders. The Mausoleum of Halicarnassus resembled a temple and the only way to tell the difference was its slightly higher outer walls. The Mausoleum was in the Greek-dominated area of Halicarnassus, which in 353 was controlled by the Achaemenid Empire. According to the
Vagif Mausoleum mausoleum was severely damaged after occupation of Shusha by Armenians. Azerbaijani prisoners of war in Armenian captivity were forced to pull off the valuable marble. At the present time is in a ruined condition. Vagif Mausoleum Vagif Mausoleum ( or ) was built in honor of Molla Panah Vagif, a poet, prominent statesman and diplomat and vizier - the foreign minister of the Karabakh Khanate. The mausoleum is located in the city of Shusha in Karabakh region of Azerbaijan. The construction of the mausoleum started in the 1970s and was completed in 1982. It was inaugurated by then the First