Artemisia, Queen of Halicarnassus, wife of King Mausolus, became immortal through the magnificent tomb, one of the wonders of the world, which she erected for her husband. It was called Mausoleum, and this name has been used ever since for tombs of large dimensions. The Mausoleum of Hadrian surpassed in dimensions and magnificence every other tomb. We get no idea of it from what remains. It would require too great an effort of imagination to re evoke all its splendour. Procopius, the Byzantine historian of the 6th century, left us a description of it in his time. The Mausoleum had square foundations above which rose a big tower adorned with Doric columns, statues ... continue