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Halicarnassus (present Bodrum, Turkey); the origin of the word "mausoleum" – the tomb is now destroyed Mausoleum of Maussollos: Abu Lu'lu'a Firuz (d. 644) assassin of the second Islamic caliph Umar: Kashan, Iran: Shrine of Abu Lu'lu'a: Yaqub Leith Saffari (840–879) ruler of the Saffarid dynasty: Shahabad (ancient Gondishapur) near Dezful ...
Mausoleum of Isa Khan Niazi a renowned general of Sher Shah Suri near the Mughal Emperor Humayun's Tomb complex in Delhi 1547–1548 CE. An inscription on a red sandstone slab says Masnad Ali Isa Khan, son of Niaz Aghwan, the Chief chamberlain.
A mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the burial chamber of a deceased person or people. A mausoleum without the person's remains is called a cenotaph. A mausoleum may be considered a type of tomb, or the tomb may be considered to be within the mausoleum.
The Green Dome, which houses the tomb of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (who is buried alongside the first two Rashidun Caliphs), is located in the southeast corner of Al-Masjid an-Nabawi ("The Mosque of the Prophet") in Medina, Saudi Arabia. The tomb lays within the confines of the Hujra ("Noble Chamber"), what used to be his and his wife Aisha's
The Pyramid tomb of Khufu The Ohel, gravesite of the Lubavitcher Rebbes Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn and Menachem Mendel Schneerson, and a place of pilgrimage, prayer, and meditation Tombs and sarcophagi at Hierapolis Tomb of the Mannerheim Family in Askainen, Masku, Finland Radimlja stećak necropolis Hussain's tomb (shrine), in Karbala, Iraq A type of tomb: a mausoleum in Père Lachaise Cemetery
The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus or Tomb of Mausolus [a] (Ancient Greek: Μαυσωλεῖον τῆς Ἁλικαρνασσοῦ; Turkish: Halikarnas Mozolesi) was a tomb built between 353 and 351 BC in Halicarnassus (present Bodrum, Turkey) for Mausolus, an Anatolian from Caria and a satrap in the Achaemenid Persian Empire, and his sister-wife Artemisia II of Caria.
Experts believe the tomb was owned by a man who died in 736 AD at age 63, during the middle of the Tang dynasty, which ran from 618 to 907 AD. He was buried in the tomb along with his wife.
The Eastern Qing tombs (Chinese: 清 東 陵; pinyin: Qīng Dōng líng; Manchu: ᡩᡝᡵᡤᡳ ᡝᡵᡤᡳ ᠮᡠᠩᡤᠠᠨ, Möllendorff: dergi ergi munggan) are an imperial mausoleum complex of the Qing dynasty located in Zunhua, 125 kilometres (78 mi) northeast of Beijing.