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
Mausoleum of Princess Jeonghyo Mausoleum of Princess Jeonghyo The Mausoleum of Princess Jeonghyo (known as Zhenxiao in Chinese) was made in 793 by the people of the early Balhae kingdom, and is a part of the Ancient Tombs at Longtou Mountain in Jilin, China. The Mausoleum contains, among other things, the first complete discovered and detailed murals done by Balhae artists, and hence provides valuable insights to historians. The mausoleum was marked by a rectangular pagoda, of which only the base remains. The burial chamber is underground, beneath the remains of the pagoda, and was excavated in October 1980. The 10.5-metre-high chamber is rectangular: