Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
King Mausolus's tomb gave every mausoleum its name
Artemisia, widow of the Carian ruler Mausolus, completed his tomb about 45 metres tall: a high podium, a colonnade, a stepped pyramid and a chariot on top, with reliefs by the best Greek sculptors. The wonder stood for almost 1,800 years until earthquakes ruined it and the Knights Hospitaller used its stones for their castle. Mausolus's name became the word mausoleum.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 338 BC The Battle of Chaeronea — 13 years later
Africa
- 331 BC Founding of Alexandria — 20 years later
Alive at the time
- Plato (aged 77)
- Aristotle (aged 33)
- Alexander the Great (aged 5)
- Mencius (aged 21)
- Diogenes of Sinope (aged 61)
- Shang Yang (aged 39)
- Olympias (aged 24)
- Zhuangzi (aged 18)
- Ptolemy I Soter (aged 16)
- Pyrrho (aged 9)