* Sarcophagi – stone containers for bodies or coffins, often decorated and perhaps part of a monument ; these may stand within religious buildings or greater tombs or mausolea

" Sarcophagi were undoubtedly used by the Egyptians prior to the building of the Great Pyramid, but it was not until after the days of Trajan that the Greeks and Romans produced the monumental and richly sculptured examples which are found in the museums of Europe today.

This was followed by Sente and Juillard's two-book adventure: The Sarcophagi of the Sixth Continent ( volume 1, The Universal Threat in 2003 ; volume 2, Battle of the Minds in 2004 ) which also dealt with Blake and Mortimer's youth and how they first met in pre-independence India.

In 2008 Sente and Juillar released another book entitled The Gondwana Shrine which chronologically follows the events of The Sarcophagi of the Sixth Continent.

Sarcophagi carved in relief had already become highly elaborate, and Christian versions adopted new styles, showing a series of different tightly packed scenes rather than one overall image ( usually derived from Greek history painting ) as was the norm.

Sarcophagi were most often designed to remain above ground, hence were often ornately carved, decorated or elaborately constructed.

`` So it wasn't the earthquake that made him return to his village ''!!

Refunds of less than $1 will not be made unless you attach a separate application to your return requesting such a refund.

This means that if your insured vehicle is laid up for more than 30 days, insurance can be suspended and a proportionate return of your premium made to you.

But he decided he wouldn't mind company in return for free drinks, even though he made good money at his job.

Francois D'Albert, Hungarian-born violinist who made his New York debut three years ago, played a return engagement last night in Judson Hall.

He had to return to Europe before the ceremony, so the Academy agreed to give him the prize earlier ; this made him the first Academy Award winner in history.

This made Woodfull the only captain to regain the Ashes and he retired upon his return to Australia.

After the return of René to Provence, Alfonso easily reduced the remaining resistance and made his triumphal entrance in Naples on 26 February 1443, as the monarch of a pacified kingdom.

Very soon after his return to Nuremberg, on 7 July 1494, at the age of 23, Dürer was married to Agnes Frey following an arrangement made during his absence.

It started from the exhaustion of necessities that the Russians provided to local people in return for furs they had made.

According to what Aleut people told Japanese castaways, otters were decreasing year by year and their share in return of furs they made also were decreasing as Russian ships stopped coming to the island.

Until his return from Mexico in 1930 Whorf had been entirely an autodidact in linguistic theory and field methodology, yet he had already made a name for himself in Middle American linguistics.

By the mid-1990s, however, companies were beginning to ask what the return was on the investment they had made in this loosely controlled PC software buying spree.

The original text service had no return path, this being made available in later phases.

In the 1929 general election he made a final bid to return the Liberals to the political mainstream, with an ambitious programme of state stimulation of the economy called We Can Conquer Unemployment !, largely written for him by the Liberal economist John Maynard Keynes.

Some old characters, like The Three Bears and Little Plum, have more recently made a return.

After my return from the hospital, Boria came to visit me, as though nothing had happened, a dn touchingly made his peace with my mother, telling her how much he loved me.

The British Museum has refused to return these artefacts, stating that the " restitutionist premise, that whatever was made in a country must return to an original geographical site, would empty both the British Museum and the other great museums of the world ".

The king's judges would then return to London and often discuss their cases and the decisions they made with the other judges.

Bokassa made an unexpected return in October 1986 and was retried.

After an appropriate delay without a return, these will then organise a search party ( usually made up by other cavers trained in cave rescues, as even professional emergency personnel are unlikely to have the skills to effect a rescue in difficult conditions ).

In recent years city officials have explored ways to revitalize the city and return Columbus to the days when Miller's architectural innovation made it one of the most envied cities in the US.

Beginning in 1970, it was made illegal to fail to return a completed census form.

Such web-proxies can inspect both the initial request and the returned web page using arbitrarily complex rules and will not return any part of the page to the requester until a decision is made.

(" He divided these regions into deaconships and made seven sub-deaconships which seven secretaries oversaw, so that they brought together the deeds of the martyrs faithfully made whole, and he brought forth many works in the cemeteries.

Greenaway trained as a muralist for three years ; he made his first film, Death of Sentiment, a churchyard furniture essay filmed in four large London cemeteries.

The grave of Ernst Barlach, perhaps the most notable creative artist to have made his home in Ratzeburg, is located in one of the city's cemeteries.

Columbia had five cemeteries, including a Boot Hill, where burials were made without markers.

Almost half of Collingdale's area is made up of four cemeteries, three of which are active.

In 1872, Gordon was sent to inspect the British military cemeteries in the Crimea, and when passing through Constantinople he made the acquaintance of the Prime Minister of Egypt, who opened negotiations for Gordon to serve under the Khedive, Ismail Pasha.

Megalithic cemeteries contain burials that are linked together by low stone platforms made from large river cobbles.

Both cemeteries such as the Kerameikos in Athens or Lefkandi and sanctuaries such as Olympia, recently-founded Delphi or the Heraion of Samos, first of the colossal free-standing temples, are richly provided with offerings including items from the Near East, from Egypt and from Italy made of exotic materials such as amber or ivory, while exports of Greek pottery demonstrate contact with the Levant coast at such sites as Al Mina and with the region of the Villanovan culture to the north of Rome.

In 1960 an attempt was made to transfer maintenance to the Veterans Administration, either in place or by moving the graves to Fort Lawton in Magnolia, now Discovery Park, but the VA was unable to spend money on cemeteries owned by others, and the graves were never moved.

The first excavations were those made by the traveller Theodore Bent in 1884, who opened up some 40 graves in two cemeteries.

Those cemeteries in the surroundings of Moises Ville founded the base of the Jewish community and bonded the Jewish immigrants to the land: they made the families stay and not leave the resting place of the deceased unattended.