One man's name became every grand tomb — because his wife built a monument so spectacular it earned a place among the Seven Wonders.
A large, impressive building housing a tomb or group of tombs, or a large gloomy building or room.
From Latin Mausoleum, from Greek Mausōleion, the magnificent tomb built for Mausolus, satrap of Caria, at Halicarnassus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Key roots: Mausolus (Carian: "personal name (Carian satrap, d. 353 BCE)").
Mausolus didn't build his own mausoleum — his wife Artemisia II did, and she was so grief-stricken that she reportedly mixed his ashes into her daily drinking water. The tomb she commissioned became one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, outlasting both of them by nearly two millennia.