Colossus of Rhodes to stand again.

[Ben Kenobi]

I was hoping for a reconstruction out of bronze too. That would be something.

Oh, and apparently they are going to rebuild the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus too.

[Barnabas]

They need a corpse for that

[Zkribbler]

Oh here Halicarnassus, Halicarnassus, Halicarnassus...

[Seedle]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
Oh here Halicarnassus, Halicarnassus, Halicarnassus...

Isn't Halicarnassus a place, and Mausollos the dude buried there? As in, Mausoleum comes from dude's name?

[OzzyKP]

Originally posted by Seedle


Isn't Halicarnassus a place, and Mausollos the dude buried there? As in, Mausoleum comes from dude's name?

Kind of like how the Washington Monument honors a guy named Monument and happens to be built in a town called Washington?

[MarkG]

Seedle

The Tomb of Mausolus, Mausoleum of Mausolus or Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (in Greek, Μαυσωλεῖον της Ἁλικαρνασσοῦ ) was a tomb built between 353 and 350 BC at Halicarnassus (present Bodrum, Turkey) for Mausolus, a satrap in the Persian Empire, and Artemisia II of Caria, his wife and sister. The structure was designed by the Greek architects Satyrus and Pythius.[1][2] It stood approximately 45 metres (135 ft) in height, and each of the four sides was adorned with sculptural reliefs created by each one of four Greek sculptors — Leochares, Bryaxis, Scopas of Paros and Timotheus.[3] The finished structure was considered to be such an aesthetic triumph that Antipater of Sidon identified it as one of his Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

The word mausoleum has since come to be used generically for any grand tomb, though "Mausol – eion" originally meant "[building] dedicated to Mausolus".

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Seedle


Isn't Halicarnassus a place, and Mausollos the dude buried there? As in, Mausoleum comes from dude's name?

Yeah. In the 1400's the Knights of St. John took over that part of Turkey and used the ruins of Mausollos's tome to build a giant castle. The Turks were still using it as a military base all the way through WW1 but now it has been turned into a museum.

It's kind of interesting but the Knights of St. John, also called the Knights Hospitaller, still exist today in Malta. The order was founded during the 1st Crusade and still exist today. It's a cool bit of history.