The tomb of Myrine is mentioned in the Iliad ; later interpretation made of her an Amazon: according to Diodorus, Queen Myrine led her Amazons to victory against Libya and much of Gorgon.

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.

When Pausanias visited Thebes in Boeotia, in the second century AD, he was shown Hector's tomb and was told that the bones had been transported to Thebes according to a Delphic oracle.

These faithful followers of Jesus stood at Golgotha during the Crucifixion of Jesus and later came to his tomb early on the morning following the Sabbath with myrrh ( expensive oil ), according to the Jewish tradition, to anoint their Lord's body.

In return, in 756, Pepin and his Frankish army forced the last Lombard king to surrender his conquests, and Pepin officially conferred upon the pope the territories belonging to Ravenna, even cities such as Forlì with their hinterlands, laying the Donation of Pepin upon the tomb of Saint Peter, according to traditional later accounts.

The exception may perhaps be Giovanni Sclafenato, who was appointed as cardinal according to the papal epitaph on his tomb for " ingenuousness, loyalty and his others gifts of soul and body ".

" However according to a survey done by Gary Habermas ; 75 % of both conservative and non-conservative New Testament scholars accept arguments in favor of the empty tomb.

In antiquity, according to a fragment of Callimachus ' lost Aitia, there was a tomb of Peleus in Ikos ( modern Alonissos ), an island of the northern Sporades ; there Peleus was venerated as " king of the Myrmidons " and the " return of the hero " was celebrated annually.

And there was his tomb, according to a poem in the Greek Anthology.

Joseph of Arimathea was, according to the Gospels, the man who donated his own prepared tomb for the burial of Jesus after Jesus ' Crucifixion.

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.

The inscription Panyu 番禺 on tomb bricks further confirms the dating, since, according to historical records, Panyu was the name of the county to which the present territory of Hong Kong belonged during the Han Dynasty.

James Montague, the Bishop of Bath and Wells from 1608 – 1616, paid £ 1, 000 for a new nave roof of timber lath construction ; according to the inscription on his tomb, this was prompted after seeking shelter in the roofless nave during a thunderstorm.

According to Plutarch, these books were recovered some four hundred years later ( in reality almost five hundred years, i. e. in 186 BC according to Livy ) at the occasion of a natural accident that exposed the tomb.

Scholars think that, after Tutankhamun returned Egypt to the traditional religion, he moved his closest relatives: father, grandmother, and biological mother, to the Valley of the Kings to be buried with him ( according to the list of figurines and drawings in his tomb ).

He pursued his studies at Padua, and is said to have spoken about sixteen languages during his lifetime, though according to Tiraboschi the inscription on his tomb limits the number to twelve.

Fontaine married late in life and after his death in 1853 his body was placed in the same tomb according to his wishes.

He died about 1230, and was buried at Würzburg, after leaving instructions — according to the story — that the birds were to be fed at his tomb daily.

The famous crypt at Old St. Peter's Basilica, Rome, developed about the year 600, as a means of affording pilgrims a view of Saint Peter's tomb, which lay, according to the Roman fashion, directly below the high altar.

Duke Humphrey's Walk was the name of an aisle in Old St Paul's Cathedral near Duke Humphrey's tomb ( which, according to the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, in reality was John of Gaunt's ), an area frequented by thieves and beggars.

The gospel according to Luke relates that the women from Galilee visited the tomb and that Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, Joanna and the other women from Galilee later told the disciples about the visit to the tomb.

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.

His tomb in Pumbedita was a place of worship as late as the 12th century, according to Benjamin of Tudela.

These later medieval lives do, however, reveal that during Goscelin's lifetime persons suffering from gout were urged to pray at Mellitus ' tomb.

Around 1100, a tomb for him was made in Enger ; recent excavations have found that the contents of the tomb are indeed early medieval, but it is impossible to decide whether the body is Widukind's.

Royal consent would be necessary to open any royal tomb, so it was felt best to leave the medieval mystery unsolved for at least the next few generations.

Noteworthy are also the medieval stained glass, the Tarlati Chapel ( 1334 ) and the Gothic tomb of Pope Gregory X.

In the parish church of St. Nicholas can be found the ornate tomb of Sir William Paston ; the remains of medieval painted screens ; a telescopic Gothic font canopy ; a unique Royal Arms Board ; an ancient iron bound chest ; and many other ancient artifacts.

The marker is frequently mistaken by tourists as being a medieval marker of the actual tomb of the doge.

In the Elm limestone was mined in medieval times ; limestone from the region was used for the tomb of Henry the Lion as well as for the imperial cathedral of Königslutter.

Built between 1178 and 1282, on the site of an older church, it contains many curious medieval antiquities ( especially in the sacristy ), as well as a picture by Angelica Kauffmann, and the tomb of the great Grisons political leader ( d. 1637 ) Jenatsch.

A full size reclining copper gilt effigy of the Earl lies upon his Purbeck marble tomb – a fine piece of medieval metalwork cast in 1459.

The only medieval tomb of importance to remain relatively unscathed in the Dom is that of Bishop Guy of Avesnes ( also known as Gwijde van Henegouwen ), the brother of John II, Count of Holland and Hainaut, who was bishop from 1301 until his death in 1317.

The cathedral famously contains the reputed tomb of Strongbow, a medieval Norman-Welsh peer and warlord who came to Ireland at the request of King Diarmuid MacMorrough and whose arrival marked the beginning of English involvement in Ireland.

The tomb in the nave is believed today not to be Strongbow's, the original tomb having been destroyed centuries ago, an unrelated medieval tomb was moved soon afterwards from a church in Drogheda to Christ Church and placed as a substitute to the destroyed tomb of Strongbow.

Cozia Monastery, erected close to Călimănești by Mircea cel Bătrân in 1388 and housing his tomb, is one of the most valuable monuments of national medieval art and architecture in Romania.

In Southern Somalia the preferred medieval shrine architecture was the Pillar tomb style while the North predominantly built structures consisting of domes and square plans.

Within the cathedral there is a medieval tomb of a knight and his wife, the inspiration of the poem " An Arundel Tomb ", by Philip Larkin.

The monuments include an elaborate medieval tomb-chest, a small brass of 1610 and a metal-inlaid lid of a churchyard tomb of 1618.

Osric was buried at Gloucester Abbey beside Cyneburh, before the altar of St Petronilla ; his remains now lie in a medieval tomb in the cathedral.

* tomb inscriptions on marbles in medieval Bosnia and Herzegovina, chiefly between 11th and 15th centuries

This tomb, in Carrara marble, made by Girolamo da Fiesole, in the Italian style, and whose recumbent statues are reminiscent of 15th-century French medieval tradition ( school of Michel Colombe ), was kept since 1506 in Saint-Martin de Tours before being moved in 1834 to Saint-Gatien.

Many of the markers are simple, others are elaborately carved with Art nouveau angels drooping mournfully over a tomb or with large, elaborate bas relief panoramas of a somewhat imaginary medieval Warsaw.