18/10/2010 
In 377 BC, the city of Halicarnassus was the capital of a small state on the Mediterranean coast of Asia Minor. Iponno died at this time the ruler of this kingdom, Gekatomnus of Malas, leaving his vledeniya his son Mausolus Mavsolu.Otets Gekatomnus was quite ambitious, and he took control of a couple of neighboring gorodv and districts. Mavsol continued to expand its territory.
Mavsol, with his wife Artemisia of Halicarnassus and the rules of the district as much as 24 years. Despite the fact that Mavsol Gikarnasa was from, he spoke greseski and admired life and of the governments of Greece. Mavsol built along the coast a few cities in the Greek style, and also called for the Greek tradition.
Mavsol died in 353 BC, leaving one of his wife Artemis, she was his sister (in Caria was the custom to marry their sisters). For Artemisia, it was a very big loss, so she decided to build the best husband in the world's tomb for his beloved. The building was so beautiful and unique in its kind, it has become one of the seven wonders of the world drevnevo.
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Tags: seven wonders of the world , Artemis , the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus , Mavsol
Category: History
06/30/2010 
Mnogoie know about the Seven Wonders of the World, but not all able to list them (Lighthouse of Alexandria, the Temple of Artemis, The pyramids near Cairo, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, the Statue of Olympian Zeus, the Colossus of Rhodes). The initial list of Wonders of the World (Ancient World) original form consisted of "miracles" of the second century BC For the first time a list of the most impressive buildings in the works mentioned by Herodotus in the fifth century, much before our era. In this list there were only three miracle miracle. All of them were on the island of Samos: the aqueduct in the form of a tunnel, the temple of the goddess Hera and the dam in one of the ports.
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Tags: seven wonders of the world , the lighthouse of Alexandria , the Hanging Gardens of Babylon , the Colossus of Rhodes , the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus , Statue of Zeus , Temple of Artemis
Category: Puzzles , History
