mausoleum

He’s the reason lower Manhattan is today a lively, thriving urban environment rather than an urban-planning mausoleum.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

The bronze crypt plate mounted at the mausoleum had the star’s name engraved on it before she died, alongside her husband’s name and a depiction of her Tennessee home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026

A room on the Taj Mahal—Shah Jahan’s mausoleum for his wife Mumtaz Mahal, and the Mughals’ most famous landmark—feels a little underwhelming: Nothing could replace being there.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026

His mausoleum, which dates to the 9th Century and has a towering golden dome and minarets, is visited by millions of pilgrims each year.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026

He retraced his steps, almost casually, caught her perfume again about fifty feet away, beside a small mausoleum with a closed metal gateway.

From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman

“What does it mean to have some lone surviving mausolea in the middle of a massive jumble of roads and traffic?”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2023

"It looks like a large number of villa buildings, along with a probable bath house and perhaps even mausolea and a chapel," said Dr Gater.

From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2022

The National Museum of African American History and Culture now stands as a glittering golden crown on the Mall, in Washington DC, a brilliant foil to the neighbouring rows of white stone mausolea.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 28, 2017

The Romans, says Pausanias, called all their most magnificent tombs mausolea after this monument to Mausolua, and hence our modern term mausoleum.

From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Alexander Pope

The Indian mounds, those gigantic mausolea of unhistoried nations, will ever present a subject of absorbing interest to the reflecting mind.

From The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 by Jonathon Holt Ingraham

A Cuban tour guide at Havana’s historic Colón Cemetery, a popular visitor draw because of its elaborate monuments and mausoleums, said she lost her job this spring as tourism collapsed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026

Conservative governor Tarcisio de Freitas on Tuesday signed the so-called Bob Coveiro law that will allow pets to be buried in family graves or mausoleums across Sao Paulo state.

From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026

Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi admitted to leading fighters who destroyed historic mausoleums at the world heritage site in Mali in 2012.

From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2024

Since then, volunteers—also known as “gravers”—have stalwartly photographed and recorded tombstones, mausoleums, crosses, statues, and all other manner of graves for posterity.

From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024

Bod had stores of food, the kind that lasted, cached in the crypt, and more in some of the chillier tombs and vaults and mausoleums.

From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman