Seven Wonders of the Ancient World - Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
Ridiculous History
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4.3 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Like most rulers of old, Mausolus wasn't exactly known for his modesty. In today's episode, Ben, Noel and Max continue their exploration of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World with the story of a tomb so opulent that humans ended up making a brand-new word to describe it: the Mausolem (at Halicarnassus).
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| 0:00.0 | Ridiculous History is a production of IHeart Radio. Welcome back to the show. |
| 0:28.0 | Fellow ridiculous historians, thank you, as always so much for tuning in. |
| 0:33.2 | We are recording this on Thursday, April 17th, and we are pleased as punch to return to our |
| 0:41.9 | continuing series on Wonders of the Ancient World. |
| 0:45.8 | That's our super producer, Mr. Max Williams. |
| 0:49.1 | It's him. |
| 0:50.3 | Yeah, also doing double duty as our research associate for this one. |
| 0:53.9 | You're Noel Brown. |
| 0:54.9 | It's me. |
| 0:55.4 | You're Ben Bowling. |
| 0:56.3 | That is what they call me. |
| 0:57.8 | Yes, outside of Vegas. |
| 0:59.8 | Oh, my gosh. |
| 1:01.0 | Dude, I was re-listing to part two of our Paul is Dead conversation. |
| 1:07.8 | At the very end of that episode, everybody relisten back, astute, ridiculous historians, |
| 1:13.0 | you will hear Noel and I refer to the fact that I do have a different persona in Vegas, |
| 1:21.8 | which I feel like we need to clarify that. |
| 1:24.4 | I stumbled into it, as you recall, Noel. |
| 1:27.3 | That's how you walk in Vegas. |
| 1:28.3 | It's the only way to be. And we wish the identity of Greg Prime the best. We're not here to talk |
| 1:38.3 | about Vegas, which is maybe a wonder of the modern world. You're not allowed to talk about |
| 1:43.1 | Vegas. What happens in Vegas |
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