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The word mausoleum is nowadays defined as “a special building made to hold the dead body of an important person or the deceased bodies of a family”. This word is derived from the name Mausolus, for whom the original ‘Mausoleum’ was built. Located in modern day Bodrum, Turkey, the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus is one of the ‘Seven Wonders of the Ancient World’. Due to this status, the Mausoleum is one of the most well-known structures in the ancient world. After the Great Pyramid of Giza, this was the longest surviving Wonder, standing for more than a millennium and a half, until its eventual destruction. Who was Mausolus? The Mausoleum of Halicarnassus was built for Mausolus, the second ruler of Caria