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
Melik Ajdar Mausoleum Melik Ajdar Mausoleum Melik Ajdar Mausoleum or Dzhidzhimli Mausoleum – is a mausoleum located in high mountainous terrain of Dzhidzhimli village of Lachin. It is believed that this monument was built in XII-XIII centuries. The general image of Melik Ajdar mausoleum is reminiscent of a parabola. The slopes between the surfaces of this parabola are designed with engraving. As a result, the general picture of the monument is reminiscent of migrant, Turkic-speaking peoples, which is widely spread among the nations and overall appearance of this object resembles the dwelling nomadic peoples. There is almost no transit between the mausoleum and