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Legend says
.... King Mausolus was a ruler of a small kingdom in Asia
Minor. His wife was a beautiful woman named Artemisia. Artemisia
loved her husband dearly.
When the
king died, his wife decided to build her husband the most
magnificent tomb in the world.
And she did.
From far and wide, people came to gaze
upon the tomb in wonder. The people called it the Mausoleum at
Halicarnassus.
This tomb was built so beautifully that
the ancient Greeks the tomb to
be one of the seven wonder of the world even though the tomb had not
been built by the Greeks. They
were that impressed!
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