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Conversely the use of true brass seems to have declined in Western Europe during this period in favour of gunmetals and other mixed alloys but by the end of the first Millennium AD brass artefacts are found in Scandinavian graves in Scotland, brass was being used in the manufacture of coins in Northumbria and there is archaeological and historical evidence for the production of brass in Germany and The Low Countries areas rich in calamine ore which would remain important centres of brass making throughout the medieval period, especially Dinant – brass objects are still collectively known as dinanterie in French.
In some cultures in Africa, visits to the graves of ancestors, the leaving of food and gifts, and the asking of protection serve as important parts of traditional rituals.
Saakashvili who stressed that the Iranian Georgians have historically played an important role in defending Iran put flowers on the graves of the Iranian Georgian dead of the eight years long Iran – Iraq War.
Mallwitz took charge of the excavations between 1972 and 1984 revealing important dating evidence for the stadium, graves, and the location of the Prytaneion.
The Qur ' an emphasized that their number and the length of their stay is known only to God and a few people, and that these issues are not the important part of the story, but rather the lessons that can be learned from it. The purpose of this narration in Qur ' an is when a man dies his Accountability & Resurrection starts right there as time passes in minutes & hours in the graves.
The two most important graves were not sacked and contained the main treasures of the museum.
Some national cemeteries, especially Arlington, contain the graves of important civilian leaders and other important national figures.
However, important shaykhs would sometimes create schools, or, after their deaths, their graves would turn into holy places of significance to the tribe.
The mostly-Buddhist peasantry practiced ancestor worship, an important part of their religion that was disrupted by being forced out of their villages and away from their ancestors ' graves.
The Mamilla Cemetery contained the graves of many important Islamic saints and scholars, as well as several Mamluk tombs.
Veneration of saints ( both male and female ) and pilgrimages to their shrines and graves represent an important aspect of popular Islam in both the city and the country.
The debate surrounding mass graves amongst epidemiologists includes whether or not, in a natural disaster, to leave corpses for individual traditional burials, or to bury corpses in mass graves: for example, if an epidemic occurs during winter, flies are less likely to infest corpses, reducing the risk of outbreaks of dysentery, diarrhea, diphtheria, or tetanus, so the use of mass graves is less important.
The village is an important archeological site ( findings from the Mesolithic, Neolithic, Eneolithic, Bronze Age, grave-mounds from the late 1st century BC, Slavic finds from the 7th and 8th century, early Magyar graves ).
However, outside the wall there are important buildings as well: The Basilica cemetery, the Basilica 5th, mansion of the 3-4th century by the sea, baths and extensive mosaics, another street with shops, cemeteries with arched graves engraved inside of the hill or underground arched graves with sarcophagus since the 3rd-6th century.
Numbers of graves in the vicinity recall the battles which were fought for the possession of this important strategic point.
* The Ixelles Cemetery is one of the most important cemeteries in the country as it contains the graves of a number of famous Belgian personalities.
In the city he visited the cemetery at al-Qarafah, which contained the graves of many important figures in the history of Islam.
Smaller less important graves surround the original tumulus.
Despite their frequency, the graves are far too few to house the many inhabitants the city once had, which indicates that the city normally used alternative means of interment such as cremation for the majority of residents and reserved burial for important members of society.

graves and men
David Anthony notes, " About 20 % of Scythian-Sarmatian " warrior graves " on the lower Don and lower Volga contained females dressed for battle as if they were men, a style that may have inspired the Greek tales about the Amazons.
The two men dig six graves for Reid's comrades, so that Cavendish will think there were no survivors.
David Anthony notes, " About 20 % of Scythian-Sarmatian " warrior graves " on the lower Don and lower Volga contained females dressed for battle as if they were men, a phenomenon that probably inspired the Greek tales about the Amazons.
However, in Sweden and also parts of northern Poland the graves were oriented north-south, men lay on their left side and women on the right side-both facing east.
At other times he prayed and cried at the graves of pious men and women.
David Anthony notes, " About 20 % of Scythian-Sarmatian " warrior graves " on the lower Don and lower Volga contained females dressed for battle as if they were men, a phenomenon that probably inspired the Greek tales about the Amazons.
Young men who wish to obtain such a protector spirit for themselves sleep on the graves of prominent persons or seek out solitude and fast so that they may dream of a helper spirit.
Until 1989 the graves of five of these men were unmarked.
Some 3, 700 Aboriginal men and boys were imprisoned there during the life of the establishment, and it has been estimated that there may be as many as 369 inmate graves on the island.
The streets blazed with a reflection from saloons, and a glance within showed floors crowded with dancers, the gaily dressed women striving to hide with ribbons and paint the terrible lines which that grim artist, Dissipation, loves to draw upon such faces ... To the music of violins and the stamping of feet the dance went on, and we saw in the giddy maze old men who must have been pirouetting on the very edge of their graves.
He is frightened from the glade by the Wilis, female spirits who, jilted before their wedding day, rise from their graves at night and seek revenge upon men by dancing them to death.
On May 8, 2000, several men from Baghlan Province were driven up to the Robotak Pass in Samangan province, approximately 20 miles north of the city of Samangan ( 100 miles south of Mazar-i-Sharif ) and were executed, later found by local farmers in shallow graves which the Taliban had dug for them.
In August 2001, about 70 generic " Unknown " markers for the graves of men known to have died during the attack on Pearl Harbor were replaced with markers that included USS Arizona after it was determined they perished on this vessel.
In addition, new information that identified grave locations of 175 men whose graves were previously marked as " Unknown " resulted in the installation of new markers in October 2002.
Many of the men and boys were executed and buried in mass graves.
The graves of 8 of these men are located around Wanouchi, serving as a constant reminder of the great sacrifices made so that people could live in a safer environment.
White crosses and Stars of David mark 2, 289 graves, 250 for unknown service members, and the names of 1, 060 missing men adorn the wall of a memorial chapel.
Shen and Dr. Lee visit the graves and Shen says to Lee: " Events change men, but men do not change events.
However, both men are unaware that they photographed mass graves, and Serbs in the area spot the jet.
Two graves contain the ashes of 300 men who were cremated.
" The men had no way of digging proper graves in the volcanic rocky soil, so they gathered the bodies together and formed a cairn over them.
These are predominantly found on the plains, rarely on the Carpathian foothills ( i. e. East of the Siret ), either singly or in small groups of 2-13 graves, including men, women and children.
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