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Mausoleum: Encyclopedia - Mausoleum

A mausoleum (plural: mausolea) is a large and impressive tomb, usually constructed for a deceased leader. Mausoleum can also refer to a building which contains a number of crypts for entombment of deceased individuals. Mausoleums can be freestanding buildings, or can be part of a larger facility - such as a church. The word came from the Mausoleum of Maussollos, the grave of King Mausolus, the Persian satrap of Caria, whose large tomb was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. In New York City, Grant's Tomb is a reduced-scale version of Mausollos' monument. Other mausoleums include ...

Mausoleum: Encyclopedia II - Mausoleum of Maussollos - The construction of the Mausoleum Artemisia decided that no expense was to be spared in the building of the tomb. She sent messengers to Greece to find the most talented artists of the time. This included Scopas, the man who had supervised the rebuilding of the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus. Other famous sculptors such as Bryaxis, Leochares and Timotheus joined him as well as hundreds of other craftsmen. The tomb was erected on a hill overlooking the city. The whole structure sat in an enclosed courtyard. At the center of the courtyard was a stone platform on which the ...

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Mausoleum: Encyclopedia - Tomb

A tomb is a small building (or "vault") for the remains of the dead, with walls, a roof, and (if it is to be used for more than one corpse) a door. It may be partly or wholly in the ground (except for its entrance) in a cemetery, or it may be inside a church proper or in its crypt. Single tombs may be permanently sealed; those for families (or other groups) have doors for access whenever needed. See also. List of Egyptian tombs cemetery funeral grave catacom ...

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Mausoleum: Encyclopedia - Caria

About 545 BC independent Caria was incorporated into the Persian Achaemenid empire as the satrapy of Karka. The most important town was Halicarnassus, where its sovereigns reigned. Other major towns were Heraclea, Antioch, Myndus, Laodicea and Alabanda. Halicarnassus was the location of the famed Mausoleum of Maussollos, one of the Seven Wonders of the World and from which the Romans named any grand tomb a mausoleum. Caria was ...

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Mausoleum: Encyclopedia - Castel Sant'Angelo

The Castel Sant'Angelo is towering cylindrical building in Rome, initially commissioned by the Roman Emperor Hadrian as a mausoleum for himself and his family. It was erected on the right bank of the Tiber, between AD 135 and 139. Originally, the mausoleum was a decorated cylinder, with a garden top and the golden quadriga of the emperor. In 401, the mausoleum was converted into a military fortress and included by Flavius Augustus Honorius in the Aurelian Walls. The popes converted the structure into a castle, from the 14th century; P ...

Mausoleum: Encyclopedia - Barberini Faun

The statue known as the Barberini Faun or "Sleeping Satyr" is 215 cm long and made from marble. It was carved by an unknown sculptor, possibly Praxiteles, and dates from approximately 220 BCE. Currently it is located in the Glyptothek museum in Munich, Germany. Although some scholars have asserted that the statue is an original Hellenistic work, most people believe that it is a later Roman copy of a Hellenistic Greek original. The statue was found in Hadrian’s Mausoleum in Rome in the 17th century. The Mausoleum was converted to a f ...

Mausoleum: Encyclopedia - Bryaxis

Bryaxis (born c. 350 BC) was a Greek sculptor. He worked on the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus which was commissioned by Queen Artemisia in memory of her brother and husband, Mausolus. The greatest sculptors of their time, Bryaxis, Leochares, Scopas, and Timotheus were each responsible for one side of the mausoleum. The tomb was completed 3 years after the death of Mausolus and one year after the death of Artemisia. Categories: 350 BC births | Ancient Greek sculp ...

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Mausoleum: Encyclopedia - 520

Events February 20 - Epiphanius elected Patriarch of Constantinople. Ostrogothic ruler Theodoric the Great builds the Mausoleum of Theodoric as his future tomb in Ravenna. The kingdom of East Anglia is formed (approximate date). Bodhidharma arrives in China. Births Deaths January 19 - John of Cappadocia, Patriarch of Constantinople Category: 520 ...

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Mausoleum: Encyclopedia - Columbarium

A columbarium is a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns (i.e. urns holding a deceased’s cremated remains). The term comes from Latin and originally referred to compartmentalized housing for doves and pigeons. Columbariums can be either free standing units, or part of a mausoleum or another building. Some manufacturers do produce columbariums that are built entirely off- ...

Mausoleum: Encyclopedia - Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong ▶ (help·info) (December 26, 1893 – September 9, 1976; Mao Tse-tung in Wade-Giles) was the chairman of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China from 1943 and the chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China from 1945 until his death. Under his leadership, the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) became the ruling party of Mainland China as the result of its victory over Chinese Nationalists, the KMT, in the Chinese Civil War. On October 1, 1949, Mao declared the formation of th ...

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Mausoleum: Encyclopedia - 300

300 - Events. Romano-Celtic temple-mausoleum complex is constructed in Lullingstone, and also in Anderida (approximate date). Magnetic compass for navigation is invented in China (approximate date). Maya civilization established in what is now Belize. Franks penetrate into northern Belgium (approximate date). Split is built. Peter of Alexandria becomes Patriarch of Alexandria. Wootz steel is produced in India (approximate date). ...

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Mausoleum: Encyclopedia - Data Ganj Bakhsh

Syed Abul Hassan Bin Usman Bin Ali Al-Hajweri (sometimes spelled Hujwiri), also known as Shaikh Ali Hajweri, Data Ganj Bakhsh, or Data Sahib, was a scholar of Islam and a Sufi saint, and writer of the 11th century. He was born in Ghazna and died in Lahore in 1073CE. His most famous work is Kashf al Mahjub ("Unveiling the Veiled"), which was the first Persian language treatise on Sufism. His mausoleum, popularl ...

Mausoleum: Encyclopedia - Khaneqah

A khaneqah (also written Khanqa,Khaneqa) is traditionally a building designed specifically for gatherings of the Sufi brotherhood. Most Khaneqahs originated in the 11th or 12th centuries as Sufism spread through Central Asia. They were usually built in the vicinity of the tomb of a Sufi Sheikh or elder, as is the case with Sheikh Ghazali in Tus, or the mausoleum of Hakim Termezi (Termedhi). At the center of the building was usually a domed hall for the meeting of the brotherhood, surr ...

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Mausoleum: Encyclopedia - 354 BC

Centuries: 5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC Decades: 400s BC 390s BC 380s BC 370s BC 360s BC - 350s BC - 340s BC 330s BC 320s BC 310s BC 300s BC 359 BC 358 BC 357 BC 356 BC 355 BC 354 BC 353 BC 352 BC 351 BC 350 BC 349 BC 354 BC - Events. Chios declares independence from Athens. The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, tomb of King Mausolus and one of the Seven Wonders of the World, is built. 354 BC - Births. 354 BC - Deaths. Xenophon, Greek author D ...

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Mausoleum: Encyclopedia II - Mausoleum of Maussollos - Life of Mausolus and Artemisia

In 377 BC, the city of Halicarnassus was the capital of a small kingdom along the Mediterranean coast of Asia Minor. It was in that year the ruler of this land, Hecatomnus of Mylasa, died and left control of the kingdom to his son, Mausolus. Hecatomnus, a local satrap to the Persians, had been ambitious and had taken control of several of the neighboring cities and districts. Next to Mausolus and Artemisia he had several other sons and daughters: Ada (adopted mother of Alexander the Great), Idrieus, and Pixodarus. Mausolus in his time, extended the territory ...

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