According to Benjamin of Tudela, there was a sequence of three caves, the first two of which were empty ; in the third cave were six tombs, arranged to be opposite to one another.

In the 12th century, Benjamin de Tudela visited Meron and described a cave of tombs located there believed to hold the remains of Hillel, Shammai, and " twenty of their disciples and other Rabbis.

In the 12th century, Benjamin de Tudela, a Navarrese rabbi, visited Meron and described a cave of tombs located there believed to hold the remains of Hillel, Shammai, and " twenty of their disciples and other Rabbis.

Jesus also maintained that the time would come when the dead would hear the voice of the Son of God, and all who were in the tombs would come out, the faithful to the resurrection of life, and the unfaithful to the resurrection of judgment.

According to the Gospel of Matthew, at the death of Jesus tombs were opened, and at his resurrection many saints who had died emerged from their tombs and went into " the holy city ", presumably New Jerusalem.

He takes names in connection with his funerary role, such as He who is upon his mountain, which underscores his importance as a protector of the deceased and their tombs, and the title He who is in the place of embalming, associating him with the process of mummification.

According to Voll, it was Muhammad Hayyat who taught Ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhab to reject the popular veneration of saints and their tombs.

It contains an inscription known as the " Ordinance of Caesar " that outlines the penalty of death for those who violate tombs or graves.

A commission eventually chose St. Petersburg, so they ( along with several loyal servants who died with them ) were interred in a special chapel in the Peter and Paul Cathedral near the tombs of their ancestors.

An Egyptian influenced pharaonic tradition persisted among a line of rulers at Meroe, who raised stelae to record the achievements of their reigns and erected pyramids to contain their tombs.

On the north of the choir are the tombs of Margaret of Navarre, wife of William I, and her two sons Roger and Henry, together with an urn containing the viscera of Saint Louis of France, who died in 1270.

* On returning to Susa, Persia, Alexander the Great punishes those who he considers to have failed in their duties in his absence in India, particularly those who have plundered tombs and temples.

The tombs typically contain the remains of a dead soldier who is unidentified ( or " known but to God " as the stone is sometimes inscribed ) and thought to be impossible ever to identify, so that he might serve as a symbol for all of the unknown dead wherever they fell.

Charles Warren, who was thwarted in his efforts to carry out a full survey of the tombs, in some of which villagers were living, attributed this to " the hostile nature of the villagers " whom he described as " a lawless set.

Kathleen Cohen's study of five French ecclesiastics who commissioned transi tombs determined that common to all of them was a successful worldliness that seemed almost to demand them shocking display of transient mortality.

Scenes in the tombs of the nobles in Amarna mention the queen ’ s sister who is named Mutbenret ( previously read as Mutnodjemet ).

She was the patron deity of the workers in Deir el-Medina who built the tombs.

As a cobra, she spat poison at anyone who tried to vandalise or rob the royal tombs.

The outside of the building is faced with flintwork and the interior contains a hammerbeam roof, Jacobean pulpit, early Edwardian pews with carved poppy-head ends, several table-top tombs, an ancient poor-box and a panel on the painted rood screen which shows William of Norwich, a boy martyr who is reputed to have been crucified in the 12th century.

The clustering of tombs in a single area implies that it had particular ritual significance for these people, who were likely to have been willing to transport their deceased leaders great distances for burial.

And when the lead was torn off and cast down into the church and the tombs in the church were all broken ( for in most abbeys various noblemen and women were buried, and in some kings, but their tombs were no more regarded than those of lesser persons, for to what end should they stand when the church over them was not spared for their cause ) and all things of value were spoiled, plucked away or utterly defaced, those who cast the lead into fodders plucked up all the seats in the choir where the monks sat when they said service.

It houses the tombs of Jansenius, bishop of Ypres and father of the religious movement known as Jansenism, and of Robert of Bethune, nicknamed " The Lion of Flanders ", who was Count of Nevers ( 1273 – 1322 ) and Count of Flanders ( 1305 – 1322 ).

leading Japanese scholars to insist that those found in Korea were either built by Japanese immigrants or influenced by culture brought by them, but the advanced artifacts found in Japan's tombs are Mongol people who came from Korea like the pottery, horse sculptures and earrings ,, so scholars have not been able to conclude anything about the direction of transfer.

One of those who visited the tombs was the Satsuma man who had mocked and spat on Ōishi as he lay drunk in the street.

The guns are fired, the hymns are sung, and the body of Charles is carried down to the vault and laid beside the tombs of his ancestors.

A high proportion of the collection comes from tombs or contexts associated with the cult of the dead, and it is these pieces, in particular the mummies, that remain among the most eagerly sought after exhibits by visitors to the Museum.

Korean nationalists have virulently reacted against China's application to UNESCO of Goguryeo tombs in Chinese territory: the absolute independence of Goguryeo is a central aspect of Korean identity, because according to Korean legend, it was comparatively independent from China and Japan, in contrast to subordinate states like the Joseon Dynasty and the Korean Empire.

That means, this place outside of the city, without any doubt, ...., the dating of the tombs is based on the fact that they are in the kokh style, which was common in 1st century ; however, the kokh style of tomb was also common in the first to 3rd centuries BC.

The likelihood of a 1st century tomb being built to the west of the city is questionable, as according to the late 1st century Rabbinic leader, Akiva ben Joseph, quoted in the Mishnah, tombs should not built to the west of the city, as the wind in Jerusalem generally blows from the west, and would blow the smell of the corpses and their impurity over the city, and the Temple Mount.

The most widely accepted theory is that all dolmen are tombs or burial chambers.

The Etruscans ' objets d ' art are of incalculable value, causing a brisk black market and equally brisk law enforcement effort, as it is against the law to remove objects from Etruscan tombs unless authorized by the Italian government.

The total number of tombs is unknown due to the magnitude of the task of cataloguing them.

For Golb, the amount of documents is too extensive and includes many different writing styles and calligraphies ; the ruins seem to have been a fortress, used as a military base for a very long period of timeincluding the 1st centuryso they could not have been inhabited by the Essenes ; and the large graveyard excavated in 1870, just 50 metres east of the Qumran ruins was made of over 1200 tombs that included many women and childrenPliny clearly wrote that the Essenes that lived near the Dead Sea " had not one woman, had renounced all pleasure ... and no one was born in their race ".

Imperial tombs and mausolea are cultural properties ; but they are guarded and administered by the Imperial Household Agency ( IHA ), which is the government department responsible for all matters relating to the emperor and his family.

Funerary art is art produced in connection with burials, including many kinds of tombs, and objects specially made for burial with a corpse.

The main part of the Giza complex is a setting of buildings that included two mortuary temples in honor of Khufu ( one close to the pyramid and one near the Nile ), three smaller pyramids for Khufu's wives, an even smaller " satellite " pyramid, a raised causeway connecting the two temples, and small mastaba tombs surrounding the pyramid for nobles.

On his death there is an earthquake, and saints rise from their tombs.

Since the Celtic year was based on both lunar and solar cycles, it is most likely that the holiday would be celebrated on the full moon nearest the midpoint between the winter solstice and vernal equinox, or when the primroses, dandelions, or other spring flowers rise up through the snow, or when the sun aligned with the passage tombs in the pre-Celtic megaliths.

Historic Places and Buildings: Chowkandi graveyard is the most historic place in Karachi, famous for many hundred years old tombs.

The kowtow is often performed in groups of three before Buddhist statues and images or tombs of the dead.

" The body of Yekuno Amlak is interred in the monastery of St. Stephen on Daga Island ; other Emperors whose tombs are on Daga include Dawit I, Zara Yaqob, Za Dengel and Fasilides.

Mecklenburg is the site of many prehistoric dolmen tombs.

Maeshowe is one of the largest tombs in Orkney ; the mound encasing the tomb is in diameter and rises to a height of.

Dating of the construction of Maeshowe is difficult but dates derived from burials in similar tombs cluster around 3000 BC.

The complex including Maeshowe, the Ring of Brodgar, the Standing Stones of Stenness, Skara Brae, as well as other tombs and standing stones represents a concentration of Neolithic sites that is rivalled in Britain only by the complexes associated with Stonehenge and Avebury.

Chambered tombs of the Maeshowe " type " are characterized by a long, low entrance passageway leading to a square or rectangular chamber from which there is access to a number of side cells.