Von Däniken reproduced a drawing of the sarcophagus lid ( incorrectly labeling it as being from " Copan ") and comparing Pacal's pose to that of 1960s Project Mercury astronauts, interpreting drawings underneath him as rockets, and offering it as evidence of a supposed extraterrestrial influence on the ancient Maya.

However when excavating the Catacomb of Callixtus Italian archaeologist Giovanni de Rossi uncovered the lid of a sarcophagus which suggested that Pope Urban was in fact buried there.

She was often painted on the inside lid of the sarcophagus, protecting the deceased.

His adventure among the tombs is described in terms that suggest Christ ’ s “ harrowing of Hell ” and resurrection: he effortlessly lifts the lid off the sarcophagus, which bears an inscription foretelling his freeing of the captives.

On February 12, 1924, the granite lid of the sarcophagus was raised.

The large carved stone sarcophagus lid in the Temple of Inscriptions is a unique piece of Classic Maya art.

It is believed that Lord Pakal's sarcophagus lid, which was located at Palenque, is probably “ the single most comprehensive image which relates the Vision Serpent to Maya religion .” It depicts the death of Pakal and his descent into the Underworld.

However, the sarcophagus lid was discovered in 1972 by Otto Schaden, the US Egyptologist who opened Tomb KV63 in the Valley of the Kings in 2006.

The beautifully carved sarcophagus of Hatshepsut " was discovered open with no sign of a body, and with the lid lying discarded on the floor ;" it is now housed in the Cairo Museum along with a matching yellow quartzite canopic chest.

A second sarcophagus, was found lying on its side with its almost undamaged lid propped against the wall nearby ; it was eventually presented to Theodore M. Davis, the excavation's financial sponsor as a gesture of appreciation for his generous financial support.

Unfortunately, however, Thutmose I's remains would be disturbed late during the 20th dynasty when KV38 was plundered ; the sarcophagus ' lid was broken and all this king's valuable precious jewellery and grave goods were stolen.

Instead of following, Namin removes the lid of another sarcophagus to reveal a mummy.

It revealed that Osorkon II was buried in a massive granite sarcophagus with a lid carved from a Ramesside era statue.

* The Museum of San Giovanni, built within the ruins of the church of San Giovanni and adjacent to the foundations of the Augustinian monastery, displays the marble lid of the sarcophagus where the sculpted body of the Augustinian cleric Leonardo da Vallanzzana ( Leonardo da Fivizzano ), the nemesis of Savonarola, is displayed, eternally resting cross-armed on a bed of books.

His tombstone is a reused lid of an Egyptian sarcophagus of the Old Kingdom.

Official records state that the British Museum never received the mummy, only the lid of its sarcophagus ( which is on display at the museum and known as the " Unlucky Mummy ").

ROM 807, the holotype of A. arctunguis ( now referred to A. sarcophagus ), had a 2. 5 by 3. 5 cm deep hole in the iliac blade, although the describer of the species did not recognize this as pathological.

Two of the five Albertosaurus sarcophagus specimens with humeri in 1970 were reported by Dale Russel as having pathological damage to them.

The arrangement mirrors the one designed by Bernini for the Tomb of Urban VIII ( 1628 – 47 ), with a central hieratic sculpture of the pope seated in full regalia and offering a hand of blessing, while at his feet, two allegorical female figures flank his sarcophagus.

The sarcophagus and its contents had been removed by early plunderers of the tomb.

File: Kazimierz III sarcophagus figure. jpg | Effigy of Casimir from his own tomb erected by his nephew around 1371

Einhard and his wife were originally buried in one sarcophagus in the choir of the church in Seligenstadt, but in 1810 the sarcophagus was presented by the Grand Duke of Hesse to the count of Erbach, who claims descent from Einhard as the husband of Imma, the reputed daughter of Charlemagne.

A lead coffin inside a stone sarcophagus with her name on it was found and opened in 2008 by archaeologists during work on the building.

His sarcophagus is listed as standing in a " stoa " there by Constantine Porphyrogenitus.

1515, probably based on a drawing by Raphael, and using a composition derived from a Roman sarcophagus, was a highly influential treatment, which made Paris's Phrygian cap an attribute in most later versions.

This time she was reburied in a sarcophagus paid for by Karol Lanckoroński, which had been sculpted in white marble in 1902 by Antoni Madeyski.

As part of this new attention to the cult of the Magdalene, in 1600, her relics were placed in a sarcophagus commissioned by Pope Clement VIII, the head being placed in a separate reliquary.

The monument, which was designed and sculpted by Pierre-Étienne Monnot, features the pope seated upon the throne above a sarcophagus with a base-relief showing the liberation of Vienna from the Turks by John III Sobieski, flanked by two allegorical figures representing Faith and Fortitude.

Innocent XI was subsequently considered by many to be incorrupt, and his body was placed in a glass and bronze-work sarcophagus with his face and hands covered in silver.

Leaving aside the tales regarding miracles, in the Vita Sancti Niniani Ailred includes the following incidental information regarding Saint Ninian: that his father was a Christian king ; that he was consecrated a bishop in Rome and that he met Saint Martin in Tours ; that Saint Martin sent masons with him on his homeward journey, at his request ; that these masons built a church of stone, situated on the shore, and on learning of Saint Martin's death, Ninian dedicated the church to him ; that a certain rich and powerful " King Tuduvallus " was converted by him ; that he died after having converted the Picts and returned home, being buried in a stone sarcophagus near the altar of his church ; and that he had once travelled with a holy person named " Plebia ".

The inscription in his marble sarcophagus, an elegiac distich written by Pietro Bembo, reads: " Ille hic est Raffael, timuit quo sospite vinci, rerum magna parens et moriente mori ," meaning: " Here lies that famous Raphael by whom Nature feared to be conquered while he lived, and when he was dying, feared herself to die.

The tomb of William I of Sicily ( the founder's father ), a magnificent porphyry sarcophagus contemporary with the church, under a marble pillared canopy, and the founder William II's tomb, erected in 1575, were both shattered by a fire, which in 1811 broke out in the choir, injuring some of the mosaics, and destroying all the fine walnut choir-fittings, the organs, and most of the choir roof.

An ancient Greek marble sarcophagus had been reused to bury the Saint ; but his bones were stolen in 1087 by merchants from Bari, and are now held in the cathedral of that city.

On St. Luke's Day, October 18, 1883, Harvey's remains were reinterred, the leaden case carried from the vault by eight Fellows of the College of Physicians, and deposited in a sarcophagus containing his works and an inscription:

The effect by night, when the sarcophagus is illuminated by the starlight coming through the holes in the vaulting.

Aschaffenburg's chief buildings are the Schloss Johannisburg, built 1605 – 1614 by Archbishop Schweikard von Kronberg, which contains a library with a number of incunabula, a collection of engravings and paintings ; the Pompejanum, a replica of a Roman town house discovered in Pompeii commissioned by King Ludwig I. and opened in 1850 ; the Stiftskirche basilica, founded in 974 by Otto of Swabia, duke of Bavaria, but dating in the main from the early 12th century on, in which are preserved various monuments by the Vischers, a sarcophagus with the relics of Saint Margaret, and a famous painting by Matthias Grünewald ; the Capuchin hospital ; a theatre, which was formerly a house of the Teutonic Order ; several mansions of the nobility ; and the beautiful, historical " Altstadt " ( the oldest section of Aschaffenburg ).

The Renaissance sarcophagus of Nicholas, Graf von Salm ( defender of Vienna during the Turkish siege in 1529 ) stands in the baptistry.

Among his chief works during this period are the colossal statue of Borussia for the Hall of Glory ; the Neptune fountain in bronze on the Schlossplatz ; the statue of Alexander von Humboldt, and the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Nationaldenkmal, all in Berlin ; the sarcophagus of Emperor Frederick III in the mausoleum of the Church of Peace at Potsdam ; and, lastly, the national monument to Emperor William I, the statue of Otto von Bismarck before the Reichstag building, and several of the statues in the Siegesallee.

* The sarcophagus for Danish Chancellor Conrad von Reventlow in the Schleswig Cathedral ( Schleswig Dom )

Early depiction of Jesus Christ on a sarcophagus, Hérault, France, 6th century.

Allegorical depiction of the Four Seasons ( Horae ) and smaller attendant figures that flank a Roman double-doorway representing the entrance to the afterlife, on a mid-3rd century AD sarcophagus