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Mausoleum of Caecilia Metella
The Mausoleum of Caecilia Metella, also called the Tomb of Caecilia Metella, is a late first-century BCE circular tomb on the Via Appia Antica at Rome's third milestone, later the main tower of the Castrum Caetani, with travertine facing, a bucranium frieze, and studied Roman concrete.
Mausoleum of Clesippus Geganius
Mausoleum of Clesippus Geganius, also Mausoleo di Clesippo: first-century BC Roman tower tomb on the Via Appia at Mesa di Pontinia, attributed to the freedman Clesippus Geganius known from Pliny's candelabrum story and a 2.50 m funerary inscription.
Mausoleum of Diocletian
Mausoleum of Diocletian, Split, Croatia: octagonal 4th-century Roman imperial tomb, now the Cathedral of Saint Domnius (Sveti Duje), with 24-column peripter, 57 m bell tower, and 2023 dome findings.
Mausoleum of Galla Placidia
Mausoleum of Galla Placidia (Mausoleo di Galla Placidia): small 5th-century cruciform building in Ravenna, traditionally commissioned by empress Galla Placidia after 426 AD, famed for its blue-and-gold Early Christian mosaics; a UNESCO site that never held her tomb.
Mausoleum of Gallienus
Mausoleum of Gallienus (Mausoleo di Gallieno): ruined two-storey domed rotunda at the ninth mile of the Via Appia Antica, Rome, commonly identified as the tomb of Emperor Gallienus (died 268 AD), with an 18-column annular colonnade.
Mausoleum of Helena
Mausoleum of Helena (Mausoleo di Sant'Elena), a circular 4th-century Roman mausoleum on the Via Casilina built by Constantine I for his mother Helena, named Tor Pignattara after amphorae in its dome; her porphyry sarcophagus is in the Vatican Museums.
Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi
The Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi is an unfinished Timurid mausoleum-mosque in Turkistan, Kazakhstan, built by order of Timur over the 12th-century tomb of the Sufi poet Ahmed Yasawi.
Mausoleum of Lucilius Peto
The Mausoleum of Lucilius Peto is a large circular Roman tomb on the Via Salaria in Rome, built in the late first century BC by Marcus Lucilius Paetus.
Mausoleum of Lucius Aemilius Lupus
Mausoleum of Lucius Aemilius Lupus, also called the Fabara mausoleum or Casa dels Moros: a 2nd-century AD temple-shaped Roman tomb on the Matarranya River in Zaragoza, Spain, built by Lupus's parents and among Spain's best-preserved Roman monuments.
Mausoleum of Lucius Munatius Plancus
Mausoleum of Lucius Munatius Plancus (Mausoleo di Munazio Planco, Torre d'Orlando): large cylindrical Roman tomb after 22 BC on Monte Orlando, Gaeta, 166 m above sea level, with inscription CIL X 6087; tomb of the consul who founded Lyon.
Mausoleum of M. Coelius Vinicianus
Mausoleum of M. Coelius Vinicianus, also called Sepolcro di Viniciano, a mid-first century B.C. drum-shaped Roman tomb at Tusculum near Grottaferrata, built by the Caesarian officer Vinicianus and his wife Opsilia, known from CIL 14.2602.
Mausoleum of Menenius Agrippa
Mausoleum of Menenius Agrippa (Mausoleo di Menenio Agrippa), a 1st-2nd century AD circular Roman tomb on Via Nomentana 627, Rome, named only by proximity to Monte Sacro, distinct from Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa's Campus Martius tomb.
Mausoleum of Quintus Lollius Urbicus
Mausoleum of Quintus Lollius Urbicus, also called Mausoleum of the Lollii, a near-intact circular Roman family tomb at El Héri north of Tiddis, Algeria, built by the Britannia governor Urbicus, drum 10.2 m wide and 5.5 m high.
Mausoleum of Romulus
Mausoleum of Romulus, or Tomb of Romulus, the dynastic mausoleum of Emperor Maxentius on the Via Appia Antica in Rome, where his deified young son Romulus (divus Romulus) was buried; a small Pantheon-like building with crypt and quadriporticus.
Mausoleum of the Atilii at Sádaba
Mausoleum of the Atilii (Mausoleo de los Atilios, 'Altar de los Moros'), a Roman sandstone tomb-temple facade near Sádaba, Zaragoza, Spain, built by Atilia Festa for herself, her father, and grandfather; dating disputed between late 1st and 2nd-3rd centuries AD; BIC since 1931.
Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
The Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor (秦始皇陵) is the tomb of China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, near Xi'an, and home of the Terracotta Army.
Mausoleum of the Julii
Mausoleum of the Julii, at Glanum (Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France): Roman tower tomb of Les Antiques, with battle reliefs, quadrifrons, and Corinthian tholos; distinct from the Vatican's Tomb of the Julii with its Christ-as-Sol-Invictus mosaic.
Mausoleum of Theodoric
The Mausoleum of Theodoric (Mausoleo di Teodorico) is Theodoric the Great's two-storey, decagonal tomb in Ravenna, built about 520 AD of Istrian stone with a 230-tonne monolithic dome; UNESCO-listed since 1996, his remains removed in 540.
Mausoleum: Siebenunddreißig Balladen aus der Geschichte des Fortschritts
Mausoleum: Siebenunddreißig Balladen aus der Geschichte des Fortschritts (Mausoleum: Thirty-Seven Ballads from the History of Progress) is a 1975 book by Hans Magnus Enzensberger portraying inventors, revolutionaries, and scientists in verse.
Maute group
Maute group (Dawlah Islamiya), Islamist militant group founded by brothers Omar and Abdullah Maute in Butig, Lanao del Sur, Philippines; pledged allegiance to ISIS in 2014 and led the 2017 Marawi siege, after which its leaders were killed and remnants persist as DI-MG.
Mauthausen concentration camp
Mauthausen was a Nazi concentration camp in Upper Austria, established in 1938, where at least 95,000 of some 197,000 prisoners died before its liberation in May 1945.
Mauthner neuron
Mauthner neuron (Mauthner cell, M-cell): a pair of giant reticulospinal hindbrain neurons in fishes and amphibians that triggers the C-start escape response, with ~100 μm somata, segregated sensory dendrites, and mixed electrical-chemical synapses.
Mauvais Djo
Mauvais Djo (Joel Raul Marcolino, born 1997, Rouen) is a French-Congolese rapper and speaker from Évry, member of Triangle des Bermudes, known for the hits "Pilé" and "Maladie" and the L'Undertaker albums.
Mauve
Mauve is a pale purple color ranging between lilac and violet, named from the French word for mallow, and also the dye mauveine discovered in 1856.
Mauveine
Mauveine, also known as aniline purple or Perkin's mauve, is a purple synthetic dye first prepared from coal tar by William Henry Perkin in 1856.
Mauvin Godinho
Mauvin Godinho is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who serves as a minister in the Government of Goa, holding the Transport, Industries, Panchayat, and Protocol portfolios.
Mauza Ujjain Kashipur Mound
Mauza Ujjain Kashipur Mound, also called Govishana Mound or Dronasagar site, is an ASI-protected excavated site at Kashipur, Uttarakhand, identified with ancient Govisana of Xuanzang, with a Gupta-period brick temple, Painted Grey Ware occupation, and a 2026 excavation.
MÁV
MÁV (Magyar Államvasutak, Hungarian State Railways) is the Hungarian state-owned railway company, founded in 1869, operating about 7,275 km of track and most passenger trains.
Mavacamten
Mavacamten (Camzyos, MYK-461), a first-in-class oral cardiac myosin inhibitor by MyoKardia/Bristol Myers Squibb, FDA-approved 28 April 2022 for symptomatic obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; proven in EXPLORER-HCM, not in nonobstructive HCM.
Mavado (singer)
Mavado, stage name of David Constantine Brooks (born 1981), Jamaican dancehall singer from Cassava Piece, Kingston; the "Gully God" behind "Real McKoy" and Gangsta for Life, rival then partner of Vybz Kartel.