The passage tombs are most often set on a hilltop inside a large circular mound surrounded by kerbstones. |
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Uzbeks bury their deceased within twenty-four hours of death, in above-ground tombs. |
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To the westward, but on their left instead of their right, tombs of great antiquity passed by their gaze. |
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As reorganiser of the papal archives and refurbisher of inscriptions on martyrs' tombs, Damasus earned the undying gratitude of historians. |
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The dinner and drinking party was a favourite theme in the lavish paintings which adorned their tombs. |
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An unsteady faith leads us back to the tombs, as it led Mary in her desire to anoint Jesus once more in death. |
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For most visitors, however, it is enough to enjoy the soothing, and rewardingly aesthetic, experience of Hyderabad's little known Paigah tombs. |
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Massive stone tombs and carved sarcophagi were visible through the foggy moonlight. |
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Massive tombs with painted and sculpted decoration, ash urns, and sarcophagi became a form of social competition. |
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The table tombs are particularly elegant-flat ledger stones supported on vase-shaped marble balusters. |
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In Egypt, the twelfth-century BC pharaohs had to appoint a commission to inquire into the wholesale plundering of tombs in the Theban valley. |
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The royal tombs are layered pyramidal structures built of massive stone slabs. |
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The other wives and attendants tombs were built beside the king's pyramid but were only small rectangular tombs or mastabas. |
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The city rose to this challenge, not with banks of sterile oven-slot tombs but with dazzlingly elaborate mausoleums. |
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Intended to serve as a dynastic mausoleum, it houses one of England's most dazzling collections of aristocratic tombs. |
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Cemeteries, tombs, and mausoleums are described from the point of view of art history and archaeology. |
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Forty-five aristocratic Merovingian tombs have been discovered over the past few weeks in the Haut-Rhin. |
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Now, from the window of his home in Dennistoun he can see the serried tombs of the wealthy dead in the city's Necropolis. |
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Finally, elaborate megalithic art in Ireland is found only at passage tombs. |
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These range in date from the pre-Reformation tombs in St Magnus Cathedral to memorials erected after the Second World War. |
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The marble tombs had been smashed open and the bones and skulls lay scattered carelessly around the overgrown graveyard. |
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However, the underground chambers of the tombs are well preserved, though they have long been emptied of their contents. |
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From the late Middle Ages onward, Italian churches were increasingly filled with an abundance of elaborate family tombs. |
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These funeral towers, or chullpas, have been heavily looted and were empty, but skeletons were found in the underground tombs. |
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Important individuals were typically interred in log-lined tombs which were burnt and then covered by a conical earth mound up to 20m high. |
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It is believed that corpses that have been removed from their tombs may be turned into zombies, who then serve the will of their masters. |
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It resembles the rock cut chambered tombs of the Mediterranean, though it is probably of local inspiration. |
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The elite were often buried in log-lined tombs within the charnel houses, accompanied by a selection of rich grave goods. |
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In 1923 Sir Flinders Petrie found another cache of fossils at Qua, wrapped in linen and carefully stored in rock tombs. |
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On this day, families visit the tombs of their ancestors and clean the burial ground. |
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Rich merchants erected extravagant public buildings and temples and tombs, living and dying in sumptuous style. |
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Initially it was thought that the Maya pyramids did not serve as tombs, but recent explorations have identified burial sites within some of them. |
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In Egypt pyramids were used as monumental tombs, whereas in Mesopotamia, Mesoamerica, and South America they were temple platforms. |
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The great pyramids were burial tombs for the pharaohs who were revered as gods on earth. |
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Elizabethan monuments were not only funeral buildings like tombs, churches or charnel-houses. |
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Many local people believed him when he spoke of the right or wrong siting of houses or tombs. |
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The proof comes in the gold and silver treasure found in ancient Egyptian tombs and even older Mesopotamian burial sites. |
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In life the king and his family could watch the liturgy from the tribune above, and in death their tombs occupied the Pantheon itself. |
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Three years later, smugglers found more artifacts in the tombs at Ikiztepe and Aktepe tumuli. |
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Among the many stories preserved in these tombs is the history of how wild cats first became mousers, then house pets, then gods. |
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There is the convulsed boy foaming at the mouth and the man emerging from the tombs with an unclean spirit. |
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An unroofed section of passage, also rare in these tombs, gives access to the chamber entrance. |
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The song of the poet himself will reanimate the memory of Troy and rescue it from the dark tombs. |
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Both corpse and monument are still there, whereas the tombs of other violated burials returned to St-Denis merely as museum displays. |
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I grew up in some of the more remote parts of Scotland with undiluted access to history and myth amid standing stones, cairns, tombs and ruins. |
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This menhir is surrounded by a network of enigmatic cairns and chambered warrior tombs. |
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Even more impressive are the nuraghic tombs which survive in two localities near the town of Arzachena, at Li Lolghi and Coddu Vecciu. |
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Archaeologists have found over 65 tombs, stone circles, passage graves and standing stones. |
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By 1300 individual patrons had built prominent, canopied tombs, with effigies and small weeper figures. |
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Two years ago, the cemetery suffered from a spate of vandal attacks and several tombs were damaged. |
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Egyptian hieroglyphic inscriptions in tombs epitomise the idea that the voices of the dead can be heard again through the written word. |
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Archeological excavations show that mound tombs constructed in this time were all very similar and yet widely distributed. |
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The coastal heat created oven-like conditions in the tombs and dried the contents out, thus preserving them. |
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Our eyes move past abandoned buildings, tombs of a civilization in decline. |
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The history of bonsai goes back countless ages, with the first evidence of small potted trees showing up in Egyptian tombs over 2000 years ago. |
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People go to the mosque to pray and light candles and also visit the tombs of pir to make a wish. |
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Vast tombs, embowered beneath the weeping willow and the fir tree, told of the antiquities of the Lloyd family, as well as of their wealth. |
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The descent into the Etruscan tombs must have let him feel he was commingling with his father, father and son consubstantial. |
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The theological views held by the Lutheran Church to the contrary, the tombs assert the contiguity of the community of the living with the dead. |
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The divergent set of data includes campaign inscriptions, burial tombs, and riverbank flood marks. |
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Her style of investigation is practical, and she counsels caution when deducing daily life from what has been found in tombs. |
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The upper chamber houses their decorative graves amidst profusely inscribed gilted walls while their actual tombs are in a crypt below. |
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So it's not yet full-scale Romanov worship, complete with icons in front of these new tombs. |
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Interestingly, there are also tombs, skeletons and death's heads, along with some shocking acts of violence. |
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These protectors guarded over the tombs of the kings, in what is now known as the Valley of the Kings. |
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The ancient Egyptians used the pyramids as tombs for the pharaohs and temples for their gods. |
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Several intact tombs have been discovered as well as the remains of five pyramidal platforms. |
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Time, grave robbers, and now heavy tourist traffic have not been kind to the tombs. |
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The counterpart of the English and Scottish passion for painted portraits was an almost equal obsession with sculpted effigies on tombs. |
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Early Egyptologists camped in empty tombs whilst excavating the Valley of the Kings. |
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In Florence, Michelangelo Buonarroti's ducal tombs in the Medici church of San Lorenzo particularly impressed him. |
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These concepts are reflected in great mosques, forts, durbars and palaces, gardens and pools, and finally, tombs. |
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Archaeologists excavated the remains of 23 men, women and infants from the tombs. |
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As many as thirty dolmens, the remains of prehistoric chambered tombs, have been discovered. |
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All these tombs had been laid out to a single design, a unified architectural conception of the king surrounded by his court, in death as in life. |
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The imitations imply knowledge of imported origins and, in fact, the Divari tombs did contain Augustan-period beakers of Italian thin-walled ware. |
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Before and after the Reformation the families of the deceased commemorated them by erecting tombs bearing brasses or sculptures or placed elaborate gravestones in churchyards. |
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It was a centre of cultural production, as we call it, where they made tombs and brasses and all kinds of statuary and things like that, because they were near the cathedral. |
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My wife and I recently toured the tombs and temples of the pharaohs along the Upper Nile. |
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A pilgrimage to Medina is often made in conjunction with the pilgrimage to Mecca in order to visit the tombs and shrines of Muhammad, his family, and the first three caliphs. |
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Oh yes, some of those tombs and vaults are more than 250 years old. |
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The shrine was once a beautiful golden palace but the years had worn away its natural beauty and now only some walls, statues and the underground tombs remained. |
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In the ninth century, when Paris was invaded by the Norsemen, those great pillagers of tombs, her relics were taken for safety some fifteen miles away. |
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During WW2 he was a pilot officer in the photographic branch of the RAF which took him to Egypt and gave him the opportunity to visit the tombs there. |
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Birth and death, however, collide in a remarkable way in a number of tombs in the Greek world in which a woman is found inhumed or cremated together with a fetus or neonate. |
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Of these two tombs, we have also discovered a detailed day-by-day excavation journal, previously thought by Egyptologists to have disappeared or never to have existed. |
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The field site contains over 45 stone circles, passage graves, standing stones and dolmen tombs and has been the focus of excavations for more than twenty years. |
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Despite our lack of information about the superstructures of the nearby tombs, we know that Eurysaces' tomb had to contend with at least one of his neighbors. |
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The unique disc-bead necklace, made of cannel coal and jet, was found beside the remains of a child's skeleton in one of three early Bronze Age stone tombs. |
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The majority of tombs are a mixture of small passage-tombs and dolmens, usually surrounded by a stone kerb and constructed with the large rounded granite boulders of the area. |
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The central focus of the current exhibition in Cleveland is the foundation of the Carthusian monastery of Champmol and the ducal tombs that once occupied its choir. |
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After the English Reformation, many holy buildings such as tombs, charnel-houses, cloisters and churches were deconsecrated, emptied of their contents, sold away or destroyed. |
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Meg Cabot's story is completely fictional with some real elements such as the clothes they wore in the 1800s, how they treated women, and the Egyptian tombs. |
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The increasingly centralised organisation of the third millennium BC created a disciplined labour force, which was used to build vast royal monuments and elite tombs. |
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The interesting thing was that whereas the pots from chambered tombs were thick and heavy, the domestic pots were really quite dainty with thin walls. |
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Wall paintings and mummified owl remains of have been discovered in ancient Egyptian tombs, and the owl motif was used in Egyptian as well as Mayan hieroglyphics. |
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Archaeologists have even found vases of chufas in the tombs of Pharaohs. |
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They are called shabti, and were figurines which were put into tombs and were believed to be invested with magical powers to do work for the deceased in the afterlife. |
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It was common for ancient Greek temples to be built over or near the tombs of local heroes. |
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A variety of ancient silver and jade ware has been seized from the temporary residences of the robbers, who dug tombs late at night and hid the relics in secret places. |
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Pincus's volume deals with the earliest examples of any of the four books, ducal tombs produced in Venice from the mid-duecento to the later quattrocento. |
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Then I read this cool piece on Nature.com, in which acousticians have analyzed Mayan tombs and found that they were designed to produce incredibly weird sound effects. |
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As the ground under foot grew unusually lumpy, I worried I was stepping on tombs. |
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Soon after the preserved corpses were unveiled, curious people began paying workers a few pesos for a peek at the tombs. |
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They even examined floor sweepings from tombs and living areas. |
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Experts say other tablets of its kind have been unearthed in many other ancient tombs and just like today's title deeds, they are credentials of land purchase and ownership. |
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The tombs were made of ashlars with dry joints, or of bricks and mortar. |
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Fans of archaeology shouldn't miss the Istanbul Archaeological Museums which are exhibiting the Sarcophagus of Alexander the Great and various Lydian tombs. |
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At a casual glance it might seem just another book about sarcophagi, another archaeological survey of tombs, funerary ritual, and the care of corpses. |
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They analyzed the remains of food left in tombs as offerings and the residues of beer and crumbs of bread encrusted on pottery shards and vessels. |
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They had slumbered in my drawer over the decades, like pharaohs snoozing in their tombs. |
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In total, 31 huns were buried in the tombs that were discovered at the foot of Salkhit of Rashaant Soum in Khuvsgul Province. |
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It's your job to enter the tombs and put this bad boy back to rest. |
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It's worth scrambling into some of the tombs to see the finely marbled stone, ribbed and veined into extraordinary patterns by the forces of nature. |
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According to most beliefs, pyramids were built with the help of great armies of slaves, by the ancient pharaohs of Egypt as tombs for preserving their royal bodies. |
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They say the pharaoh Khufu who built the Great Pyramid was so obsessed by the construction of his own tomb, he had no money to build tombs for others in his family. |
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The concept of the dead travelling through the underworld in a boat is regularly depicted in the Valley of the Kings and the tombs of the Pharaohs. |
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Yet despite the presence of molds, bacteria, and other nasties, most archaeological sites, including tombs, have proven safe for science and tourism alike. |
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The wealthy, physically buff, and orphaned British aristocrat lives for high adventure, scouring the globe for lost tombs and forgotten treasures. |
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In Ethiopia the concept of tombs has been traced back 3,700 years with the discovery of a stone necropolis in the south-eastern area of Awash Chercher. |
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In prehistoric Britain early agricultural communities deposited their dead in communal, highly visible locations such as chambered tombs, barrows and burial cairns. |
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But barrows, tombs, sacred springs, stone circles and surviving customs are satisfactory starting points for the study of non-revealed religious or magical rites. |
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Hence Dorian's portrait is like the ka or double of the deceased in Egyptian tombs, heaped with toys and furniture. |
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Parc Cwm long cairn is one of six chambered tombs discovered on Gower and one of 17 in what is commonly known as Glamorgan. |
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It takes its name from the township of Canegrate where, in the 20th century, some fifty tombs with ceramics and metal objects were found. |
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The decorative use of narcissi dates as far back as ancient Egyptian tombs, and frescoes at Pompeii. |
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The oriental plane, Platanus orientalis, grew in gardens and around tombs in ancient Egypt, Greece, and Persia. |
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It is unique in northern Europe, bearing similarity to Neolithic or Bronze Age tombs around the Mediterranean. |
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It was depicted in art on the walls of tombs, and figured in funerary texts, as a protective symbol against snakes. |
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Political ceremony will be held by the side of the tombs of martyrs at Sunn. |
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After the ceremony, revelers are expected to pray at their tombs. |
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They were close to the promontory of the tombs, and had looked straight into the chhatri of the Rajah's father through an opening in the trees. |
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There, archeologists excavated a large cemetery with tombs dating from the Roman Empire until the 6th century. |
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The preferred method of burial seems to have been singular graves and cists in the east, or in small wedge tombs in the west. |
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These tombs are particularly numerous in Ireland, where there are many thousand still in existence. |
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Bryn Celli Ddu is generally considered to be one of the finest passage tombs in Wales. |
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These chambered tombs were designed for collective burial and are mostly located in the central Derbyshire region. |
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There, Arthur and Guinevere are married and there are the tombs of many kings and knights. |
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Smaller figures in pottery or wood were placed in tombs for many centuries afterwards, reaching a peak of quality in Tang dynasty tomb figures. |
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There are superb examples such as cedar furniture inlaid with ebony and ivory which can be seen in the tombs at the Egyptian Museum. |
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Late medieval Scottish churches also often contained elaborate burial monuments, like the Douglas tombs in the town of Douglas. |
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The oldest monuments, cairns, were followed by princely tombs and stone rows. |
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They are generally all regarded as tombs or burial chambers, despite the absence of clear evidence for this. |
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Megalithic tombs are found from the Mediterranean Sea, Baltic Sea and North Sea coasts south to Spain and Portugal. |
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Amber ornaments have been found in Mycenaean tombs and elsewhere across Europe. |
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Egyptian civilisation is renowned for its colossal pyramids, temples and monumental tombs. |
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People had also begun to burn paper money instead of placing actual coins in the tombs. |
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In the cathedral, beneath the high altar, are the tombs of eight Holy Roman emperors and German kings. |
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For instance, many of the tombs of the Egyptian pharaohs were looted during antiquity. |
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The pagan emperors' tombs of the Mausoleum of Augustus and Castel Sant'Angelo were rifled and the ashes scattered. |
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This new finding further supports Reeves's assumption that other queens from the 18 th dynasty, such as Hatshepsut, had similar tombs. |
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The earliest example of silk has been found in tombs at the neolithic site Jiahu in Henan, and dates back 8,500 years. |
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Six thousand year old relics of the hollowed out tombs of the Ancient Egyptian pharaohs are discovered. |
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The Wanli Emperor died in 1620 and was buried in the Dingling Mausoleum among the Ming tombs on the outskirts of Beijing. |
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Even the Egyptians are speculated to have used hosiery as socks have been found in certain tombs. |
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Exodus from Egypt means a departure from the thanatocracy where all our energies are expended on building the tombs of mummified eternal death. |
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Among the sites are Parknabinnia and Creevagh wedge tombs, Muchinish Castles, ring barrows, and Carran Church. |
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From royal tombs to rich Chaucerian oratories, alabaster was evidently a material held in high regard. |
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This was brought home to me in a recent visit to painted megalithic tombs in western Iberia. |
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They are burial grounds and unmarked graves, and the camps are tombs. |
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Around the headland are the ruins of ancient Asini, with the remains of an acropolis, Mycenean tombs and Roman baths. |
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Linked with the earth, snakes were associated with chthonian powers and the Greeks and Romans regarded them as guardians of sacred places, houses and tombs. |
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During the Kofun period of the 3rd to 6th century CE, haniwa terracotta figures of humans and animals in a simplistic style were erected outside important tombs. |
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The facts probably are that the ordinary symptoms of sorocho are aggravated by the putrid emanations from the tombs, and the virulent diseases result from the latter cause. |
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The Church of Our Lady of Laeken holds the tombs of many members of the Belgian royal family, including all the former Kings of Belgium, within the Royal Crypt. |
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Besides the mosque, it is also possible to find good examples of Ottoman architecture in soup kitchens, theological schools, hospitals, Turkish baths and tombs. |
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Neolithic people in the British Isles built long barrows and chamber tombs for their dead and causewayed camps, henges, flint mines and cursus monuments. |
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Use of ossuaries requires that the flesh first be removed, which can be achieved by burying bodies for an initial period in temporary tombs until only the bones remain. |
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Among the prominent tombs or dargahs are the Dargah Sharif of Hazrat Khan Saheb at Cotta in Ponda, the shrine in Quepem near Cuncolim and the dargah at Betim. |
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Photos of various archaeological and historic sites, including Jubbah Hail, Jassassiya, Hafite tombs, burials mount, Dilmunian City, and Salut site have been displayed. |
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He ordered temples built in his honor throughout the Ming Empire, and built personal palaces created with funds allocated for building the previous emperor's tombs. |
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Associatism can take the form of venerating trees or the tombs of saints, seeking holy men or soothsayers as intermediaries with God, or putting one's faith in astrology. |
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Finely made and decorated Unstan ware pottery links the inhabitants to chambered cairn tombs nearby and to sites far afield, including Balbrindi and Eilean Domhnuill. |
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As Maya society developed, and the elite became more powerful, Maya royalty developed their household shrines into the great pyramids that held the tombs of their ancestors. |
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Death was so common that ships were called tumbeiros or floating tombs. |
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Imperial tombs have spectacular avenues of approach lined with real and mythological animals on a scale matching Egypt, and smaller versions decorate temples and palaces. |
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