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
Mausoleum of Saad Zaghloul Mausoleum of Saad Zaghloul The Saad Zaghloul Mausoleum () was built in 1927 to commemorate the late Egyptian revolutionary, Saad Zaghloul. It is located in Downtown Cairo, Egypt. Saad Zaghloul (1853-1927) spent most of his adult life trying to end the British occupation of Egypt and Sudan, which had begun in 1882. He became a national spokesman for Egyptian and Sudanese self-rule, and held the post of Prime Minister for a time. Highly respected, even by the foreign governors he opposed, an eponymous mausoleum was erected in his honor shortly after his death. Built of granite, the mausoleum's design echoes