Built as a mausoleum for his wife
True.
And this is not only true for the distant and not so distant past, it's also true for the present as well. Slaves and prostitutes still exist around the world, despite us thinking that slavery may have been abolished. This is sadly not the case; in some areas in Africa and the Middle east, slavery still exists.
War, Political Freedom, Religious Persecution, Unemployment, Low Wages
According to Herodotus, the Phoenician prince Cadmus was accredited with the introduction of the Phoenician alphabet—phoinikeia grammata, "Phoenician letters"—to the Greeks, who adapted it to form their Greek alphabet.
W H E E Z E
I don't know is the glass half full or half empty?
It's really a matter of perspective XD
