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The Mausoleum The word itself feels heavy in the mouth, like a stone dropped into still water: mausoleum. It comes from a single building, the original one, built around 353 BCE in Halicarnassus (modern Bodrum, Turkey) for Mausolus, a satrap of the Persian Empire. His grieving widow-sister Artemisia II spared no expense. Greek architects Satyros…