Diogenes Laertius also ascribes to him the inscription on the tomb of Midas, of which Homer was considered by others to have been the author:

Upon the tomb of Midas.

A strong ale based on residue found on drinking vessels from the tomb of King Midas, dating back to the 8th century BC.

In 1997, molecular archeologist Dr. Patrick McGovern received a phone call from a former student of his informing him of a residue on clay jars from the tomb of King Midas.

Some of the early reports explicitly indicate that Athanasius spent this period of exile in his ancestral tomb.

An early Classic ( 460 – 480 AD ) period Mayan tomb from the site of Rio Azul, Guatemala, had vessels with the Maya glyph for cacao on them with residue of a chocolate drink.

A painted terracotta centaur was found in the " Hero's tomb " at Lefkandi, and by the Geometric period, centaurs figure among the first representational figures painted on Greek pottery.

Egyptologists believe that the pyramid was built as a tomb for fourth dynasty Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu ( Cheops in Greek ) over a 10 to 20-year period concluding around 2560 BC.

It is believed the pyramid was built as a tomb for fourth dynasty Egyptian pharaoh Khufu and was constructed over a 20 year period.

Painted artwork during the Tang period pertained the effects of an idealized landscape environment, with sparse amount of objects, persons, or activity, as well as monochromatic in nature ( example: the murals of Price Yide's tomb in the Qianling Mausoleum ).

A scepter was found in a tomb at Abydos that dates to the late Naqada period.

During Rome's Classical period, the body was most often cremated, and the ashes placed in a tomb outside the city walls.

Other important works from his period in Poland were the tomb of Casimir IV in Wawel Cathedral, the marble tomb of Zbigniew Oleśnicki in Gniezno, and the altar of Saint Stanislaus.

When the sepulchral chamber was opened in 1873 by Bauchetet, a French engineer officer, clear evidence was found that at some remote period the tomb had been rifled and an attempt made to destroy it by fire.

Monumental stone pillar-gates, twenty-nine of which survive from the Han period, formed entrances of walled enclosures at shrine and tomb sites.

Archaeologists Alasdair Whittle and Michael Wysocki note that this period of occupation may be " significant ", with respect to Parc Cwm long cairn, as it is " broadly contemporary with the secondary use of the tomb ".

The earliest representations of what may be the Set animal comes from a tomb dating to the Naqada I phase of the predynastic period ( 3790 BC – 3500 BC ), though this identification is uncertain.

According to the structure, calligraphy and content of the inscriptions on tomb bricks and to the tomb finds, the tomb is commonly believed to have been built during the Eastern Han Dynasty ( AD 25-220 ) although the Southern Dynasties period was also suggested.

Remnants of the Monolith of Silwan, a First Temple period tomb.

In 2008, archaeologists led by Saburo Sugiyama found a tomb containing important evidence that may help define and examine an active period in Teotihuacán history.

The architecture of this period was similar to that seen at Giza, royal necropolis of the Fourth dynasty, where recent excavations have revealed that the essential focus of the kingdom at that time centred on the construction of the royal tomb.

A mastaba, or " pr-djt " ( meaning " house for eternity " or " eternal house "), is a type of ancient Egyptian tomb in the form of a flat-roofed, rectangular structure with outward sloping sides that marked the burial site of many eminent Egyptians of Egypt's ancient period.

Phase VII is the level in which this tomb is located, is dated to about A. D. 600-650, which is at the beginning of the Late Classic period.

The Sun God ’ s Tomb marks the starting point for tomb construction in Structure B-4 during the Late Classic period.

Byzantine period oil lamp, found in Samaria in a tomb

Some have argued that Jesus was crucified on Wednesday, not Friday, on the grounds of the mention of " three days and three nights " in before his resurrection, celebrated on Sunday ; others have countered by saying that this ignores the Jewish idiom by which a " day and night " may refer to any part of a 24-hour period, that the expression in Matthew is idiomatic, not a statement that Jesus was 72 hours in the tomb, and that the many references to a resurrection on the third day do not require three literal nights.

It is popularly believed that if one donates or offers 18 rotels of liquid refreshment ( grape juice, wine, soda or even water ) to those attending the celebrations at bar Yochai's tomb on Lag BaOmer, then the giver will be granted miraculous salvation.

Yixuan was interred in a tomb of princely status, now popularly known as the " Seventh Prince's Grave " ( 七王墳 ), located 35 km / 22 miles northwest of Beijing.

It is popularly believed that if one donates or offers 18 rotels of liquid refreshment ( grape juice, wine, soda or even water ) to those attending the celebrations at Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai's tomb on Lag BaOmer, then the giver will be granted miraculous salvation.

The actual site of Kōgyoku / Saimei's grave is known, having been identified as the Kengoshizuka tomb in the village of Asuka, Nara Prefecture.

Numerous precious objects were found, including a richly ornamented sword, a torse-like bracelet, jewels of gold and garnet cloisonné, gold coins, a gold bull's head and a ring with the inscription (" of Childeric the king "), which identified the tomb.

Since Narezzaš is typically identified with the modern area of Neyriz in Fars province, Henkelman argues that Cambyses's tomb must have been located in that area.

However, according to a survey of the extant Six Dynasties ' sculpture in the Nanjing and Danyang areas, only one of the extant Six Dynasties ' tomb sculptural groups has been securely identified as belonging to the Liu Song: the Chuning Tomb of the first emperor of the dynasty.

Henry's naked and decapitated body could only be identified by his wife, thanks to a unique anatomical defect: on his left foot, he had six toes ( polydactyly ), which was confirmed at the opening of his tomb in 1832.

Traditionally, this tomb, which may have been either a rock-cut or a natural cave, is identified with the Cave of the Patriarchs ( also called the Cave of Machpelah ).

* Sidney Leslie Goodwin, child who perished in the Titanic disaster, buried in tomb of ' unknown child ', remains later identified

An unidentified tomb slab now in Ely Cathedral has sometimes been identified as his, but this identification is not secure.

Tiye is believed to have been originally buried in Akhenaten's royal tomb at Amarna alongside her son and granddaughter, Meketaten, as a fragment from the tomb not long ago was identified as being from her sarcophagus.

Recent DNA analysis sponsored by the Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities Zahi Hawass published in February 2010, identified The Elder Lady in a side chamber of Amenhotep II's tomb ( KV35 ) as Queen Tiye .< ref name =" autogenerated640 "> Hawass, Zahi et al.

In hour 5 he discovers the tomb of Osiris which is an enclosure beneath which is hidden a lake of fire, the tomb is covered by a pyramid like mound ( identified with the goddess Isis ) and on top of which Isis and Nephthys have alighted in the form of two kites ( birds of prey ).

In June 2007 Hawass announced that he and a team of experts may have identified the mummy of Hatshepsut in KV60, a small tomb in the Valley of the Kings.

In 1102, during the Goryeo Dynasty, Emperor Sukjong built a mausoleum to Gija in a place near Pyongyang that had been identified as Gija's tomb.

The Casale Rotondo, a cylindrical tomb near the sixth milestone on the Appian Way, is often identified as being the tomb of Messalla Corvinus, but this is debatable.

By the 7th century a variation emerged, according to which one of the apostles, often identified as St Thomas, was not present at the death of Mary, but his late arrival precipitates a reopening of Mary's tomb, which is found to be empty except for her grave clothes.

The mummy found in the tomb has been identified by DNA testing as the biological father of Tutankhamun, confirmed through inscriptional evidence to be Akhenaten.

The mummy found in the tomb was however at first identified as belonging to a woman by two visiting physicians who examined the remains in situ.

The latter include the Pase stela ( depicting two figures wearing crowns who are nevertheless identified as a king and queen by the three uninscribed cartouches ); the Berlin 25574 stela ( depicting Akhenaten and Nefertiti but with an extra, fourth, cartouche added to indicate two kings rather than a king and queen ); and in Meryre II's tomb, a scene in which the figures of Akhenaten and Nefertiti are nearly superimposed over each other ( which is interpreted as indicating the oneness of their co-rule ).

Assuming that this site, identified as KV54, was Tutankhamun's complete tomb, Davis concluded the dig.

Local tradition identified the village as containing the tomb of the prophet Dhul-Kifl, who is mentioned in the Qur ' an twice.

He died in 1611 in the chaplains ’ residence and was buried at the convent, although his tomb has yet to be identified.

The city has the Panteón Inglés ( English Cemetery ), which includes the tombs of many of Pachuca ’ s English / Cornish-origin residents including Richard Bell, who has been mistakenly identified as the famous a clown “ who made Porfirio Díaz laugh .” In reality, the comic of the same name died and was buried in New York in 1911, whilst the tomb refers to a miner of the same name.