Things I learned on my latest visit to the British Museum (1): the origin of the word mausoleum
This week, I visited the British Museum with a family of Czech friends. Of course, I’ve been to the museum on many occasions but, on each such visit, I always learn something new.
One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World was a huge tomb built for Maussollos, a satrap in the Persian Empire, between 353 and 350 BC at Halicarnassus (present day Bodrum, Turkey). The modern word ‘mausoleum’ derives from the Latin form of his name.