This
striking reconstruction of he famous tomb of Mausolus at Halicarnassus,
now Budrum, Asia Minor, is based on a model in the British Museum
constructed after recent investigations into the details of
the building. King Mausolus, whose name lives in our language
in he word "mausoleum", ruled Caria, from 387-353BC
as a satrap, or a provincial governor, under the Great King
of Persia. The stately monument raised to his memory was inspired
by the grief of Artemisia, his widowed queen. Accounted as one
of the Seven Wonders of the World, it stood 140 feet high.
From Wonders of the Past
