But with no money to pay fines, they were forced to build the mausoleum.
These people had violated the rules at that time and had to pay a fine. The third were the people working to repay a debt. The labourers came from three groups of people. In an area of 2,180,000 square meters (less than one square miles), many large-scale alhambresque buildings housing precious treasures are said to be buried inside the tomb. In 2000 years, the original 100-meter-high (328 feet) hillock has been weathered down to about 47 meters (154 feet) high, 515 meters (1,690 feet) long from south to north and 485 meters (1,591 feet) wide east to west. Its exterior is a low earth pyramid with a wide base.
It is believed that the tomb consists of an interior city and an exterior city. Seen from afar, it is a hill overgrown with vegetation. DimensionsIn size, the mausoleum is larger than the Great pyramid in Egypt.
