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MAUSOLEUM

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 917 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MAUSOLEUM  , the

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term given to a monument erected to receive the remains of a deceased person, which may sometimes take the form of a sepulchral
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chapel . The term cenotaph (Gr. hubs, empty, Tacos, tomb) is employed for a similar monument where the
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body is not buried in the structure . The term " mausoleum " originated with the magnificent monument erected by Queen Artemisia in 353 B.C. in memory of her
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husband King Mausolus, of which the remains were brought to England in 18J9 by
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Sir Charles Newton and placed in the
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British Museum . The tombs of Augustus and of Hadrian in Rome are perhaps the largest monuments of the kind ever erected .

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