The stone sarcophagus is carefully lifted from its resting place in Mill Mount, York. |
The whole nation mourned the irreparable loss as Nelson laid peacefully in his sarcophagus. |
Beneath it he created his own rose-coloured granite sarcophagus, and tended the flowers around it daily. |
Isis looked long at the sarcophagus, if the legends were true the body of Osiris rested in the stone structure in front of her. |
One day, you're bouncing on top of a camel and climbing inside the Great Pyramid to eye the stone sarcophagus of Pharaoh Cheops. |
The griffins at the ends of the sarcophagus are mythical monsters that preside apotropaically as guardians over the deceased. |