mausoleum

Mao's face is printed on banknotes, his portrait overlooks Tiananmen Square, and his body is preserved in a mausoleum.

From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 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

And Stalin himself, whose body was initially interred in the same mausoleum that housed the embalmed Vladimir Lenin, was subjected to criticism for some of his evil deeds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

It was later flown to the city of Karbala and taken through more crowds to the mausoleum of Imam Hussein, the prophet's grandson.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

I took a few sheets of paper from my desk and sat down to design the most fitting, most luxurious mausoleum in the world.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

“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

It is said to have been suggested by an earlier and more harmless custom of placing straw and wooden effigies in the mausolea of the great.

From Religions of Ancient China by Herbert Allen Giles

In looking at these humble graves we cannot help comparing them with the great mausolea of contemporary emperors.

From Pagan and Christian Rome by Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani

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