Mausoleum of halicarnassus

By: Maider D, Irati, Saul and Jorge.

INDEX

1)General features (name, location, what it is, when it was created, who constructed or created it)

2)Process: how it was created.

3)Aim: what it was created for.

4)Importance: why it was important, why it is considered one of the seven wonders of the world.

5)Dissapearance: when, why.

6)Today: is there anything left or preserved?

Where is?

What is a mausoleum?-Is a monument funerary and is one tomb.-It was one of the seven wonders of the old world.

When it was created and destroyed?

-It was created in 353 BC.-An earthquake in 1404, almost completely destroyed the monument -Sixteen years later, Alejandro Magno destroyed the city and the monument.

Who created it?

-It created Mausolo the son of Hecatomno. He was the strap of the Persa Empire.

Mausolo

How it was built?

The 117 colums

The 50 metres long

The king and the queen

-The construction consists of a rectangular base of 30 x 40 m, on which is placed a total of 117 columns.

-The Mausoleum reached about 50 m high.

-On the ceiling placed a statue of a chariot with the efigies of the king and queen.

-At the top was a step pyramid of 24 steps.

-They did the mausoleum with white marble.

What it was created for?

- Is created because Mausolo had died and Artemisa want to make a tomb so espectacular to expresse his power.

Artemisa (wife of Mausolo)

Why is it considered one of the seven wonders of the world and why was it

important?

-The helens consider that the mausoleum of halicarnassus was a very important and beautifull monument, so they thing that the people have to look it.

-It was important because it was the tomb of Mausolo and his wife did it to remember him.

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When & Why?

-Destruccted between the century XIII and XIV Because ------------> tremblement

-In 1404 only can saw ------------> the lower block

-In 1494 the kinghts of the order of Malta ------------> one castle

Is there anything left or preserved?

-The mausoleum support invasions and the destruction of the city by Alejandro Magno, the barbarians and the arabians; but, finally it was destructed because of one earthquake in 1404.