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Sentence Examples Elders make an income by taxi driving and baksheesh from tomb guardianship. Each merchant's tales of how the scarabs came from the tomb of Tutankhamun grew less and less likely with every member of the caravan. The inside of the camp was quiet as a tomb and Dallas didn't feel very welcome in it. The empty tomb was mentioned in each of the four biblical accounts of the Gospel. But this time it is a disaster for the travelers, who are carrying a dead man on a bier to his tomb in his homeland. After an aha moment, he suddenly realizes that they're seeking the tomb of none other than the famous physicist Sir Isaac Newton. Using a horse, some rope, and their stile as an A-frame for leverage, they were able to open up the chambered tomb. Gold, silver and precious stones along with other vessels and works of art made his tomb a virtual gold mine. Ten minutes later she settled on her beam in just over 30 ft of water, and became a tomb for five officers and 41 ratings. They knew that a wooded mound nearby hid the legendary tomb of the great emperor and so they thought this, too, was a part of it. The poem ends, appropriately enough, at the tomb of Gunnar, the epic hero of Njal's Saga, whose death at the hands of enemies remains unavenged. The papyri were discovered on the Museum's Theban expedition of 1921-22 in the tomb of one Meseh. The completely wrapped mummified infant under investigation was detected in the upper level of the tomb chamber. Amongst all that white, in a striking unharmonious sight, the only black slab was the one which marked the tomb I had come to revisit that day. Succeeding chapters take the reader from entrance to the final mystery and revelation of the martyr's tomb within. A passerby stopped and contemplated his tomb because of its uniqueness but then moved on. Family members, friends, and unit representatives laid wreaths at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier during private ceremonies for the three men. A unique prehistoric tomb in Ireland has been revealed to align to both the midsummer Sun and the midwinter Moon. It is ironic that his tomb effigy should show him brandishing an unsheathed sword. In 1964, a group of archaeologists discovered an Egyptian tomb in the necropolis of Saqqara. Show More Sentences Unless protected, medieval brasses are pitted by their droppings, as are tomb slabs. A model of a combined brewhouse and bakehouse found in an Egyptian tomb is to be seen in the museum. Some researchers now believe that the bubonic plague, or Black Death, originated in the village where builders of Tutankhamun's tomb lived. At the head of the tomb is a photograph of Arafat with a kaffiyeh draped over it. This tomb is notable because it introduced for the first time in India the principle of the true arch with radiating voussoirs. The kabaka is the supreme symbol of Buganda's identity, and the royal tomb contains the graves of the last four of the kabakas. The largest block recorded is the capstone of the tomb at Browneshill, County Carlow, Ireland, estimated to weigh 100 tonnes. From the same tomb comes a composite Helladic-Minoan silver goblet, with its carinated shape and a Minoan niello floral scene. The other hatchment is for Mrs. Henrietta Sleorgin who has the raised tomb outside the east window. The twisted columns of Bernini's baldacchino above Saint Peter's tomb, as yet not found, do not announce his resurrection. They documented the Nile's central role hieroglyphically on many monuments and tomb murals, symbolizing it in the form of a grape vine. Indeed, Henry became so afraid of the cult that he ordered that the tomb be covered over. The large wooden doors closed behind him automatically with a hollow boom, not unlike the sound of a tomb being shut. Thus Good Friday was the day when Jesus was crucified, Holy Saturday when he stayed in the tomb and Easter Sunday when he resurrected. It took almost a decade of meticulous and painstaking work to empty the tomb of Tutankhamen. An explorer who found a 2000-year-old jar of honey in an Egyptian tomb said it tasted delicious! In 1223, a sweet-smelling oil was said to have flowed from William's tomb at the east end of the nave. The four-sided capital, proposed here as part of a tomb niche, was more likely part of a freestanding ciborium or architectural support. The sealing of the tomb is echoed in the closed-in feeling of the painting. In 1923, the world was fascinated with news of the discovery of the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen. Show More Sentences The tomb precinct is enclosed on four sides by a wall constructed of stone. The sedilia form an ensemble with the piscina, tomb of Christ, and patron's tomb, all carved with foliage and figures. It was days later when Mel visited Margreet's tomb at the Mount Vernon crematory. The tomb itself is almost like a miniature fortress, with sloping crenellated outer walls, complete with eyelets for archery. It was still that way in the early hours of the first Easter Day, until two women went to his tomb and found it open and empty. The four Gospels do not agree on the names of those who came to the tomb or the number of them. The effigy on her tomb in the abbey shows her beauty and is remarkable for its attention to detail. Tax collectors appear on Egyptian tomb paintings from 2000 BC, and St Matthew, one of the 12 disciples, was a tax collector. But the discovery of Tut's tomb is still probably the most romantic and mysterious episode in the history of Egyptology. This was the first, and to date the finest royal tomb found virtually intact in the history of Egyptology. The tomb of Tutankhamun was discovered in the Valley of the Kings in 1922 by British Egyptologist Howard Carter. When confronted with an empty tomb in our lives, do we look at the hopefulness of the situation or do we look at the dismalness of the situation? There is a pond between the entrance gate and the main building of the tomb which is completely dry and virtually a dumping ground of rubbish. These were endowments to pay for masses to be sung, usually near a tomb or effigy, for the repose of one or more souls in purgatory. I spent a few minutes in the abbey museum, admiring high-relief tomb carvings of bygone Scots kings and chieftains in full battle gear. Inside, they laid their burden down on a large slab of polished white marble that was set up in the center of the tomb. He was still yelling and raging when we reached the tomb and escaped into the outside world. The most fascinating aspect of this particular tomb is the pictorial depictions of the manicurists. A blind door set into a pharaonic tomb to allow the spirit of the deceased to come and go. There is a tamarind tree next to the tomb, which is reputed to be as old as the tomb itself. Show More Sentences The tabernacled canopy over the tomb of S. Sebaldus in Nuremberg is a mixture of Gothic and classicizing details. In a nearby field his tomb is a threshing floor bordered by pawpaw trees, sugar cane, sweet potato runners. The restoration was completed earlier this month and the tomb now sits on a concrete base in a dry area well above the water table. The tomb, situated in an elevated position at the end of a rocky gorge, is a well-preserved architectural and artistic masterpiece. It is apparent that this is a rich man's tomb, carefully carved out of solid rock. The Virgin has risen from her tomb, from which lilies and roses now blossom. He lies among the remains of pontiffs from centuries past and near the tomb traditionally believed to be of the Apostle Peter, the first pope. The libation is poured into the soil before her father's tomb as she speaks. Tuthmosis III's mummy was rewrapped following damage by tomb robbers, then reburied in Deir el-Bahari. Jesus just fainted while on the cross, later revived in the cool tomb and then left. According to some reports, when they returned two days later to anoint his body, they found the tomb empty. When Mary Magdalene went to Jesus's tomb to anoint the body, she was shocked to find it empty. The saint rests in his tomb and also in immediately accessible reliquaries to the left of the royal doors of the icon screen. Goya's painting represents the most dramatic scene in which Don Juan arrives at Don Gonzalo's tomb in a fierce thunderstorm. Our aim was to study the chronological relationship between different tomb types in the region. The cemetery of over 6,000 war dead contains a tomb where a giant wreath of gold and silver leaves rests. The workers were frightened out of their wits, they knew that this meant death to whoever had dared to disturb the tomb. Margaret's shrinelike tomb canopy is almost hidden under carved foliage and tracery, with openwork rebuses, initials and ropework. Further inside is the white marble tomb of Bambah Qadin, and behind this the tomb of Khedive Tawfik. Vatican archeologists believe that they have identified the tomb of St. Paul in the Roman basilica that bears his name. Show More Sentences He pours libations at his father's tomb and a seven spiraled serpent slithers from the mound. This is the town where Padro Pio spent most of his life and is buried in the tomb in the friary. The body was discovered by grave diggers who went to the cemetery to prepare a tomb and were then drawn to the corpse by a screaming passer-by. The burial was not within the tomb itself, but along the external walls of the monument. Abera is now a worthy successor to his great predecessor, whose premature death in 1973 is marked by a monumental tomb in Addis Ababa. The Romans erected a tomb in his honor inscribed with the image of a sphere within a cylinder in tribute to his great mathematical discoveries. The monumental tomb was an identical copy of the tomb of Lenin, which can still be seen in Moscow. The second type of tomb was erected as a monument to honour the dead and to preserve their memory. Before the sirens, the confusion saw cutting metal freeing her from a tomb of steel. The tomb sits alone in an arched alcove to the right of the main altar of the central nave, a leafy potted lily behind it and a small red candle burning at the front. He invented a particular tomb format whereby the deceased was guaranteed eternal mourning by the sculpted weepers that surrounded the sarcophagus. 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. For three days now you've been quiet at a tomb and almost sullen. The tomb bears the family crest, as does the Parr Chapel ceiling. Greece has high hopes that the giant tomb now being excavated at Amphipolis contains one of these ancient Macedonian leaders. Archeological finds at the Amphipolis tomb may date back to Alexander the Great. She appears waxen and dead, akin to Lenin's body in its Red Square tomb. They will give no serious consideration to the claims that Jesus was born of a virgin mother or that he left the tomb and ascended to heaven in his risen body. In addition to fragments of at least four tripod cauldrons, the tomb also yielded a number of marine shells and two possible animal bone fragments. Up to the time the tomb was closed on 18 November, an estimated 1,250,000 people visited the Abbey, and the site is now one of the most visited war graves in the world. Show More Sentences A wall hanging discovered in a 5th century tomb in Pazyryk, clearly shows a Sarmatian rider mounted on a ridged saddle tree with pronounced pommel and cantle but no stirrups. During an archaeological dig in the 1970s, instructions for treating malaria with an herb called wormwood, or artemisia, were found in a 2,000-year-old Chinese tomb. Her body will be repatriated to bologna and buried in the family tomb this week. Fearing the tomb had been violated, she rushed back to arouse St Peter and St John who, after exploring the tomb, confirmed what she had told them. Away with palsied, powerless preaching which is unmoving because it was born in a tomb instead of a womb and nourished in a fireless, prayer less soul. The tomb, though much smaller than the palace, is similarly a vision of ornate twists, arches, and peaks. In addition to visiting the tomb of John Paul, who died of natural causes in 2005, Agca asked to see his successor, Pope Francis. The tomb of King Wladyslaw the Short is the oldest in the cathedral crypt. We have excellent representations of him, a bust by Torrigiano, a portrait by Sittow, a remarkable death mask, coinage likenesses, and a realistic tomb effigy. The story tells how he miraculously managed to escape from his icy tomb and then crawl with his broken leg for three days and nights to reach the camp. A unique aspect of this tomb was that it contained the largest group of fragmentary handmade tripod cauldrons in the Early Iron Age cemetery at Torone. Instead, they want to open the tomb to see if the remains of 15-year-old Emanuela Orlandi are interred with those of the mobster. Although the tomb was shattered and empty, leaders of the team said they will dig on in the hope of finding jewelry, other artifacts, or even the biblical monarch's remains. This passage specifies the functions of these mummiform statuettes, made of wood, terracotta, faience or metal, and in some cases left in the tomb in their hundreds. In Achaia in the western Peloponnese, a tomb at Katarraktis provided a silver bowl, a hemispherical bronze bowl, a bowl with wishbone handle, and a carinated bowl. A Cotswold-Severn tomb is one of the classic sites of British prehistory, and to have an opportunity to excavate one completely was such a treat, and a privilege. In a grotto below an ancient church lies the tomb of Alexander Griboyedov, the author of Woe from Wit and the inventor of the original angry young man, the unhappy Chatsky. The picture on the right is a replica of a game found in a royal tomb at Ur dated around 2600 BC which makes it one of the oldest game boards in existence. The tomb of Admiral Sir Isaac Smith is adjacent to the south side of the chancel and his funeral hatchment also hangs on the north aisle wall, near that of Nelson. Thus far the tomb at Amphipolis has produced artistic wonders, adding to speculation that its occupant held very high rank. Show More Sentences To not visit the family tomb on All Saints' Day was unforgivable. By contrast Italian churches had tended to confine tomb monuments to the peripheries, with the wall tomb the most prestigious form of church burial. The Canterbury Tales bear eloquent witness to the fact that for centuries Becket's tomb in the cathedral was the greatest pilgrimage shrine in England. Creevykeel is classified as a full-court tomb and shows a low line of kerbstones around the exterior of the cairn, with larger orthostats lining the court. The megalithic passage tomb is illuminated by the winter solstice sunrise. The tomb consists of a prominent polychromed alabaster effigy of the duke lying in state on a slab of heavy black marble surrounded by heraldic symbols. Now according to some sources I've read, the bones are removed from the tomb and placed into the ossuary one year after the body was laid to rest. In the same site is a copy of the oldest inscription found in the city on the tomb of some procurator or other who had helped put down the revolt by Boudicca. They claim a tattered and neglected mummy found in a tomb in the Valley of the Kings is probably Queen Nefertiti, stepmother of the boy pharaoh Tutankhamun. The Giant's Grave, a Megalithic tomb which up until now has been almost impossible to find, will add to the tourist attractions of the Slieve Bloom. They will attend the Korean War Memorial and Arlington Cemetery to pay their respects at the grave of Gen. John J. Pershing and the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The corpse was moved from the private bedchamber to the tomb in a public procession not unlike that at a wedding, with the family marching in hierarchical order. The ewer was excavated from the tomb of Li Xian, outside Guyuan Ningxia. He is buried in an elaborate tomb in New York, a place he never liked. The main body of the tomb was set into the hillside and covered with earth thereby using the heat of the earth to keep the building from freezing. The tomb effigy, the memorial portrait, and the death mask approach a condition of perfect substitutability for the irrevocably absent object, the once-living body. This tomb is situated 280 km from Mumbai and 190 km away from Nasik. The city also boasts the tomb of William Adams, a British navigator who made it ashore when his ship was lost in nearby waters at the end of the 16th century. According to that legend, the sultan who built the gorgeously white Taj Mahal as a tomb for his wife constructed a black replica for himself across the river Agra. Perhaps the most outstanding manifestation of such devotion is the Taj Mahal, erected by the Mogul emperor Shah Jehan as a tomb for his dead wife. Show More Sentences This Greek-temple-like tomb was erected in 1901 by Dr John Springthorpe, in memory of his wife Annie, who had died in childbirth four years earlier. He asks Wiglaf to build a monument, a tomb where King Beowulf's ashes will be buried, a high tower over the old one, so sailors will see it and speak of it forevermore. In the adytum was generally to be found a tomb or sacred images. The exhibition includes more than 300 objects including tapestries. jewellery, stained glass, tomb effigies and sculptures, as well as paintings and illuminated books. The Archaic period saw a great flowering of Etruscan art with the production of fine tomb paintings, funerary sculptures, and architectural terracottas. The inscription will identify the period and site of the tomb. The palliums are blessed on the eve of the feast then kept in a silver-gilt casket near the tomb of St Peter. Gospelers, looking back through the lens of the empty tomb in which Joseph and Nicodemus had laid Jesus, will see another. Chemical composition and lead isotopy of metal objects from the 'royal' tomb and other related finds at Arslantepe, eastern Anatolia. Glyndon, if thou acceptest his homage, will love thee till the tomb closes upon both. The sun of righteousness arose, dispersed the clouds of darkness, and poured noonday affulgence into the dungeon of the tomb. The egyptologists believe that she is one of three mummies discovered in a secret chamber of a tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings in Luxor. And besides, you'd do the tomb so well. Everybody feels as if they want a gleg at the skeleton in your vault. In 1831 the bones were dug up and then reburied in a new tomb, which is still there. While campaigning against Byzantium he ordered the covering of the tomb of his fellow Carthaginian Hannibal with fine marble. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, built on his orders at the purported site of Jesus' tomb in Jerusalem, became the holiest place in Christendom. According to the New Testament, Jesus was crucified, died a physical death, was buried within a tomb and rose from the dead three days later. The tomb has been disturbed several times since 1087, the first time in 1522 when the grave was opened on orders from the papacy. This tomb was again destroyed during the French Revolution, but was eventually replaced with the current marker. After two days, the corpse was interred in a plain tomb, within the church of the Greyfriars. Show More Sentences The church was demolished following the friary's dissolution in 1538, and the location of Richard's tomb was long uncertain. His cathedral tomb was designed by the architects van Heyningen and Haward. I passed by a ruined tomb in the midst of a garden-way, Upon whose letterless stone seven blood-red anemones lay. Later expansion of the church, over his grave, means that his tomb is now buried inside the church. The Constantinian basilica was built in 326 over what was believed to be the tomb of Saint Peter, buried in that cemetery. The location of the inner wall of the apse is marked on the pavement and St Cuthbert's tomb is covered by a simple slab. Cuthbert's tomb was destroyed on the orders of Henry VIII in 1538, and the monastery's wealth handed over to the king. Saint Cuthbert's tomb lies at the east in the Feretory and was once an elaborate monument of cream marble and gold. After his death he became one of the most important medieval saints of Northern England, with a cult centred on his tomb at Durham Cathedral. In 1104 Cuthbert's tomb was opened again and his relics translated to a new shrine behind the altar of the recently completed Cathedral. The location of the tomb of Saint Alban that Germanus visited is most often thought to have been Verulamium, the modern St Albans. The chapel houses the tomb of Thomas Guy, and is the resting place of English surgeon and anatomist Sir Astley Cooper. The shrine in the Trinity Chapel was placed directly above Becket's original tomb in the crypt. Merlin relates that when the lovers died, they were placed in a magic tomb within a room in the chamber. According to Welsh tradition the region of Kyle was named for Coel, and a mound at Coylton in Ayrshire was regarded as his tomb. Here Richard himself had prepared an elaborate tomb, where the remains of his wife Anne were already entombed. As of 2011, an appeal is underway to pay the costs of restoration of his tomb. In 1556, his remains were transferred to a more ornate tomb, making Chaucer the first writer interred in the area now known as Poets' Corner. The feuding families and the Prince meet at the tomb to find all three dead. The knight mentioned is the mailed figure on the Conyers tomb in ruined Sockburn church. Show More Sentences The library was built to store 12,000 scrolls and to serve as a monumental tomb for Celsus. In Welsh folklore, the summit of Snowdon is said to be the tomb of Rhitta Gawr, a giant. Also on the summit are the remains of two prehistoric burial cairns, one of which is the remains of the highest known passage tomb in Ireland. Irish mythology identifies the Great Cairn as being the tomb or abode of mythical figures, and an entrance to the Otherworld. Geometric arabesque tiling on the underside of the dome of Hafiz Shirazi's tomb in Shiraz. Smaller figures in pottery or wood were placed in tombs for many centuries afterwards, reaching a peak of quality in Tang dynasty tomb figures. A tomb guardian usually placed inside the doors of the tomb to protect or guide the soul, Warring States period, ca. Another example is the pieces found in Tutankhamun's tomb, which are of great artistic quality. On 11 August 2009 archaeologists announced that they had discovered a royal tomb from the early Bronze Age at Forteviot. It is found regularly in passage tomb cemeteries in Europe in a burial context, such as Newgrange or Carrowmore in Ireland. Ten alabaster fragments from the tomb are on display in the National Museum of Scotland and traces of gilding still remain on some of them. His tomb, imported from Paris, was extremely elaborate, carved from gilded alabaster. No trace of bones were found in the tomb, raising the possibility that they were subsequently transferred elsewhere. Inside the tomb another stone has a small spiral pattern chipped into it, although its authenticity has been questioned. The earliest identified remains at the site are a row of five postholes previously thought to have been contemporary with the tomb. At the end of its period of use the tomb was 'closed' by means of a large stone set across the entrance, between the two portal stones. On his visit to Bryn Celli Ddu, he was told how the passage tomb had been discovered a generation before, by a farmer looking for useful stone. Corpses may have been placed in nearby caves until they decomposed, when the bones were moved to the tomb. A dagger with an iron blade found in Tutankhamun's tomb, 13th century BC, was recently examined and found to be of meteoric origin. Also known as Parc le Breos burial chamber, it is a partly restored Neolithic chambered tomb. Show More Sentences Edmund was buried in a prominent tomb in the centre of the choir of the Grey Friars Church. Gruffudd's remains were interred in a tomb in the presbytery of Bangor Cathedral. Miracles began to be reported at the tomb, but Edward was sceptical about these stories. In 1292 Henry's heart was removed from his tomb and reburied at Fontevraud Abbey with the bodies of his Angevin family. He was canonized on 13 October 1202 for the many miracles noted at his tomb in the priory and Sempringham became a site of pilgrimage. Miracles were reported around the late Earl of Lancaster's tomb, and at the gallows used to execute members of the opposition in Bristol. The King's tomb rapidly became a popular site for visitors, probably encouraged by the local monks, who lacked an existing pilgrimage attraction. Miracles reportedly took place at the tomb, and modifications had to be made to enable visitors to walk around it in larger numbers. The tomb was opened by officials in 1855, uncovering a wooden coffin, still in good condition, and a sealed lead coffin inside it. Proof of Henry's deliberate connection to St Thomas lies partially in the structure of the tomb itself. Sometime after the King's death, an imposing tomb was built for him and his queen, probably commissioned and paid for by Queen Joan herself. Atop the tomb chest lie detailed alabaster effigies of the King and Queen, crowned and dressed in their ceremonial robes. The tomb of Horatio, Lord Nelson is located in the crypt, next to that of Wellington. These arms can be seen several times on his tomb chest in Canterbury Cathedral, alternating with his royal arms. On February 29, 2016, Norwegian researchers opened Richard the Good's tomb and found his lower jaw with eight teeth in it. Excavations were performed in the city by Greeks seeking the tomb of Alexander the Great without success. Eventually, Thucydides and Herodotus became close enough for both to be interred in Thucydides' tomb in Athens. That is the secret of this vault, Miss Thornberry. It is his living tomb, and the periapt you wear around your neck is his epitaph. One of the three oratories annexed, the oratory of Saint Silvia, is said to lie over the tomb of Gregory's mother. Among the greatest discoveries of lost objects was the 1653 accidental uncovering of Childeric I's tomb in the church of Saint Brice in Tournai. Show More Sentences During his visit to Pasargadae Alexander ordered his architect Aristobulus to decorate the interior of the sepulchral chamber of Cyrus' tomb. Pompey, Julius Caesar and Augustus all visited the tomb in Alexandria, where Augustus, allegedly, accidentally knocked the nose off. Caligula was said to have taken Alexander's breastplate from the tomb for his own use. His son and successor, Caracalla, a great admirer, visited the tomb during his own reign. A tomb was built for Zheng He at the southern slope of Cattle Head Hill, Nanjing. The tomb of Zheng He's assistant Hong Bao was recently unearthed in Nanjing, as well. A statue of Arsinoe II of Egypt riding a common ostrich was found in a tomb in Egypt. According to eastern folk belief, the tomb of Eve, considered the grandmother of humanity, is located in Jeddah. The tomb was sealed with concrete by religious authorities in 1975 due to some Muslims praying at the site. Remains of olive oil have been found in jugs over 4,000 years old in a tomb on the island of Naxos in the Aegean Sea. He was interred in Puerto Rico, and his tomb is located inside of the Cathedral of San Juan Bautista in San Juan. Pinto entered China from the Yellow Sea and raided a tomb of the Emperor of China. He did, however, pay close attention to the construction of his own tomb, a magnificent structure that took decades to complete. His tomb is one of the biggest in the vicinity and one of only two that are open to the public. The tomb of Philipp Melanchthon, Luther's contemporary and fellow reformer, is also located in the All Saints' Church. In 1894 his tomb was one of 900 discovered when Boston constructed the underground subway line on Tremont Street. Petri Westmonasterii sepulti, a guidebook to the many tomb monuments and epitaphs of Westminster Abbey. The Bernician arms were fictional but inspired by Bede's brief description of a flag used on the tomb of St Oswald in the 7th century. Cabbell's unusual tomb was allegedly designed to keep his restless spirit from roaming Dartmoor. The night of his interment saw a phantom pack of hounds come baying across the moor to howl at his tomb. Show More Sentences In an attempt to lay the soul to rest, the villagers built a large building around the tomb, and to be doubly sure a huge slab was placed. Many of these beliefs were recorded in hieroglyph inscriptions, papyrus scrolls and tomb paintings. Crossing rediscovered the original site of the tomb in 1882 and said that all that remained was a small mound and some half buried stones. However the church was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666, and not rebuilt, and so Leland's tomb has been lost. The Egyptian tomb remained unlooted until its discovery in the early twentieth century. Like Pullman's tomb, Beckett's dialogue is encased in its own concrete, in a stilted, unspontaneous delivery. In ancient Egypt the mastaba was a special kind of tomb where mourners made offerings at the symbolic door. After the prayer, General Shaikh Mohammed and Shaikhs visited the tomb of Shaikh Zayed, where they read Al Fatih prayer. So who else might lie inside the great circle of the Amphipolis tomb? She was found in a wooden tomb by workers who were building a road in the city of Taizhou in the Jiangsu province. Also to be exhibited are two Punic amphorae, a lamp, plate and ivory cabochons that were found atop the tomb and with the skeleton. They found canopic vases, traditionally used to preserve body organs, but no grave goods, suggesting the tomb was robbed in ancient times. The Neolithic passage tomb of Bryn Celli Ddu is one of Wales's best-known prehistoric monuments. The mummy of Perenbast, a chantress from a temple near Luxor, is fully wrapped in cloth and the decorative tomb is worth seeing. The tomb of Walter de Gray was erected in the south transept. The tomb of Christopher Columbus, inside the Cathedral of Seville. The tomb and the most important finds are described and illustrated, and the modern X-raying and CT-scanning of the king's mummy are presented in detail. Shane McCausland's study explores the value and function of visual media in China during the Yuan dynasty, covering everything from porcelain to tomb murals. He died in Strudwick's house on the morning of 31 August 1688 and was buried in the tomb belonging to Strudwick in Bunhill Fields nonconformist burial ground in London. In 2011, the tomb was cleaned of the many lipstick marks left there by admirers and a glass barrier was installed to prevent further marks or damage. Show More Sentences Small sculpted fittings for furniture and other objects go well back into antiquity, as in the Nimrud ivories, Begram ivories and finds from the tomb of Tutankhamun. An Etruscan speciality was near life size tomb effigies in terracotta, usually lying on top of a sarcophagus lid propped up on one elbow in the pose of a diner in that period. Ripon Cathedral is the main religious building in the city and contains a tomb said to contain the bones of Saint Wilfrid who founded a monastery here and with it the town. Margaret's, Westminster, where his tomb may still be visited today. However, following a public outcry, the Cathedral changed its position and on 18 July 2013 announced its agreement to give King Richard III a raised tomb monument. The Communist Party of Great Britain had the monument with a portrait bust by Laurence Bradshaw erected and Marx's original tomb had only humble adornment. On the following day the new royal tomb of Richard III was unveiled. The corpse was too large for the space, and when attendants forced the body into the tomb it burst, spreading a disgusting odour throughout the church. A further indignity occurred when the corpse was lowered into the tomb. Robert had bequeathed sufficient funds to pay for thousands of obituary masses in Dunfermline Abbey and elsewhere, and his tomb would thus be the site of daily votive prayers. Dyke, having expressed a preference for the tomb as a place of residence, went on his gloomful way shedding green paint on one side and red on the other. Even the experience of Jonah in the belly of the whale is seen as a prefigurement of the mission and role of Jesus, especially his period in the tomb before the resurrection. Thus, the commissioning of an effigial tomb for a deceased husband enabled a widow to exercise negotiating powers she could not have assumed while he lived. Outside the tomb, a ring of kerbstones shows the original extent of the mound, and they also follow the line of the ditch of the earlier henge monument. A rural area south of Tabriz where Ghazal founded from 696 to 702 a gigantic dodecahedral tomb around which were built twelve charitable and scholarly buildings. Fans still leave baseballs by the tomb of the Gashouse Gang great. It was a native Gaulish tomb that was at the same time a funeral grotto representing an Entrance to the Underworld which symbolised Return to the Womb of the Creatrix. Upon the arrival of the RAFO Commander to the Command HQs, the Royal Anthem was played and a Guards of Honour saluted the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Economists will be parsing each word in the policy statement the way that Kremlinologists would look at who was standing where on Lenin's tomb during the Soviet era. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre was built on his orders at the purported site of Jesus' tomb in Jerusalem and became the holiest place in Christendom. Show More Sentences A few years later, work began on a grander tomb for the King and in 1290 Edward moved his father's body to its current location in Westminster Abbey. Edward I's body was kept at Waltham Abbey for several months before being taken for burial to Westminster, where Edward erected a simple marble tomb for his father. Or they may repose in the tomb of history, as leechcraft, the Anglo-Saxon word for the practice of medicine, and murfles, a long defunct word for freckles or pimples. Nelson compared the individuals' lifespans with those of other, mostly wealthy Westerners who traveled to Egypt with the expedition team but didn't enter the tomb. In the graveyard is the tomb of Elihu Yale who was the benefactor of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States and after whom Yale College Wrexham is named. The Fellowship found his tomb in the Chamber of Records, together with a chronicle of events, but Orcs had discovered their presence and they had to fight their way out. They also throw Marion into the tomb with Jones, and seal it shut. The tomb has a small rectangular entrance and cleft hence its name. The position of the tomb was lost for many years until his lead coffin was found in the Henry VII vault in the 19th century, during an excavation. The twin tomb chapel of Nebnefer and his son Mahu at Sakkara. Meanwhile, upon his return to Persia, Alexander learned that guards of the tomb of Cyrus the Great in Pasargadae had desecrated it, and swiftly executed them. Fortress We watched the restless tides embracing the rocks, the shore, the small islands scattered around the coastline, Chateaubriand's tomb and the seabound fortress. Zheng He's tomb in Nanjing has been repaired and a small museum built next to it, although his body was buried at sea off the Malabar Coast near Calicut in western India. In July 2007, archaeologists discovered intricately woven and dyed silk textiles in a tomb in Jiangxi province, dated to the Eastern Zhou Dynasty roughly 2,500 years ago. Now a tourist attraction, the Hotel Sidi Driss in Matamata, Tunisia, is built out of five pit dwellings, and has been likened to an earthy silent tomb. The shrine and tomb of the famed 13th century poet and philosopher, Jalaluddin Rumi, who founded the Mevlevi Sufi brotherhood, is one of the most popular attractions. His tomb was surmounted by a cast iron obelisk made at the Round Foundry. He is buried under a huge tomb at the summit of the Glasgow Necropolis. In the Vita Germani, Germanus visits Alban's tomb and touches droplets of his blood still on the ground, but the text does not name the location of the tomb. On 7 July 1220, in the 50th jubilee year of his death, Becket's remains were moved from this first tomb to a shrine, in the recently completed Trinity Chapel. Find more words! 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