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
Gao Mausoleum Gao Mausoleum Gao Mausoleum (高陵) is located in the north of Dafen Village, Situ Town, in China's Jiangsu province. It is the tomb of Sun Jian, a war leader during the Three Kingdoms (220-265). It is tall and around in diameter. There is a river to the east of the mausoleum, which was called Wuling Harbor in ancient times. Sun Jian moved from Shouchun (now Fuyang in Zhejiang Province) to Qu'e (now Danyang) with his father Sun Zhong in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. Under the regime of Han Xiandi, Sun Jian crusaded against Dong Zhuo and was ordered by