Foreign Monarchies

Archaeology

In 1974, farmers digging a well in Xian, China, found the tomb of Emperor Shih Huang Ti. It was guarded by a terracotta army.

Howard Carter discovered the previously unplundered tomb of King Tutankhamun in 1922.

The term mausoleum comes from King Mausolus of Halicarnassus (in Turkey) who had a magnificent tomb.