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The passage tombs are most often set on a hilltop inside a large circular mound surrounded by kerbstones.
Uzbeks bury their deceased within twenty-four hours of death, in above-ground tombs.
To the westward, but on their left instead of their right, tombs of great antiquity passed by their gaze.
As reorganiser of the papal archives and refurbisher of inscriptions on martyrs' tombs, Damasus earned the undying gratitude of historians.
The dinner and drinking party was a favourite theme in the lavish paintings which adorned their tombs.
An unsteady faith leads us back to the tombs, as it led Mary in her desire to anoint Jesus once more in death.
For most visitors, however, it is enough to enjoy the soothing, and rewardingly aesthetic, experience of Hyderabad's little known Paigah tombs.
Massive stone tombs and carved sarcophagi were visible through the foggy moonlight.
Massive tombs with painted and sculpted decoration, ash urns, and sarcophagi became a form of social competition.
The table tombs are particularly elegant-flat ledger stones supported on vase-shaped marble balusters.
In Egypt, the twelfth-century BC pharaohs had to appoint a commission to inquire into the wholesale plundering of tombs in the Theban valley.
The royal tombs are layered pyramidal structures built of massive stone slabs.
The other wives and attendants tombs were built beside the king's pyramid but were only small rectangular tombs or mastabas.
The city rose to this challenge, not with banks of sterile oven-slot tombs but with dazzlingly elaborate mausoleums.
Intended to serve as a dynastic mausoleum, it houses one of England's most dazzling collections of aristocratic tombs.
Cemeteries, tombs, and mausoleums are described from the point of view of art history and archaeology.
Forty-five aristocratic Merovingian tombs have been discovered over the past few weeks in the Haut-Rhin.
Now, from the window of his home in Dennistoun he can see the serried tombs of the wealthy dead in the city's Necropolis.
Finally, elaborate megalithic art in Ireland is found only at passage tombs.
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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Examples from Classical Literature
Some of the monumental tombs are of a very impressive and beautiful character.
They, too, like the Egyptians, embellished their tombs with mural paintings.
Both tombs are elaborately carved, the medallions in alto-relievo being of very delicate work.
No other coincidence could assimilate the tombs of Petrarch and Archilochus.
However, all tombs of this period fall into two groups, kk tombs and arcosolium tombs.
In arcosolium tombs the receptacles are benches cut in the wall, like the berths in a steamer's cabin.
The asphodel was a favourite plant among the ancients, who were in the habit of planting it round their tombs.
A number of examples of bridgework have been found in the old Etruscan tombs.
Yet, before deciding it to be a burial mound, it will be necessary to show the presence of tombs near the center.
Once the whole party became lost in the maze of cavelike tombs far underground.
The Proto-Doric, the channelled polygonal column of the tombs at Beni-hassan, fell into disuse.
I'll take you to the tombs of the Kings, and to the colossi when the sun is setting.
At Milo, one of the Cyclades, there is a hill which is honeycombed with a labyrinth of tombs running in every direction.
In addition to the pyramids, Sakkara has many tombs of the greatest interest, two of which I will describe.
For Dunfermline was forgotten in rebellious times, and the tombs were undisturbed.
The sound of the approaching footsteps startles away a grey wolf from among the tombs, the sole inhabitant of that desolation.
But the chief objects of interest in these beautiful grounds are the chapels attached to the tombs of the shoguns.
This was the chamber of the tombs of the kings, and its floor echoed to their footsteps, now hollowly, now with ringing clearness.
I have seen pictures in some of the Gurnah tombs which, though crudely drawn, were undoubtedly meant for the spoonbill.
The latter, a stone fruit, was found in great quantities, as well as frequently in the other tombs that were opened.
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