The archaeological record indicates that the instructions reported by Akiba, for choosing a burial location, were rigidly adhered to ; almost all of the tombs from classical Jerusalem are to the east of the city, on the Mount of Olives, except for a few located over a kilometre to the west, and those in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

Although the Church of the Holy Sepulchre has its tomb just a few yards away from its Golgotha, there is no particular reason to regard this close juxtaposition as a necessity ; however, Gordon followed this principle, concluding that his site for Golgotha must also be the approximate location for Jesus ' burial, identifying a nearby tomb, now called the Garden Tomb, as the location for the event.

Her testimonial launch of the Second Crusade from Vézelay, the rumored location of Mary Magdalene ´ s burial, dramatically emphasized the role of women in the campaign.

A sign erected by the Israeli ministry of religions says that this is Jonah's burial site, but according to Jewish traditions this is the location of the burial of the prophets Nathan and Gad Hahozeh.

Modern archaeologists have found no evidence of mass burial at the location and only some thirty skeletons have been recovered on the site.

It is a common error that many associate the burial place of Julius as being in San Pietro in Vincoli as the location for the so-called " Tomb of Julius " by Michelangelo.

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre now occupies the traditionally ascribed location of Jesus ' death and burial.

* Article by Brian Showers on the location of the Le Fanu burial plot

Due to the favorable climate of the location, people lived there about 50, 000 years ago during the last glacial period, as burial sites show from this era.

The necropolis on the southern ridge, the location of the modern village of Silwan, was the burial place of Jerusalem's most important citizens in the period of the Biblical kings.

The burial chamber became the location of food and drink offerings by the descendants to a small bronze asen, a metal pole topped with a small circular alter for receiving the offerings.

Persistent rumors of her possible escape have circulated since her death, fueled by the fact that the location of her burial was unknown during the decades of Communist rule.

It marks the burial location of James C. Cooney, a miner in the area who was killed by Apaches in 1880.

Warren County was the location of several Native American villages and burial mounds.

The disputed property includes the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, which Native American representatives say is the location of tribe burial grounds.

The name of the community was inspired by a fan of the opera composer Richard Wagner, and the celebrated status of this hamlet comes primarily from its location as the burial places of the remains of numerous well-known people.

The town was the retirement home and burial location of Frances Bavier ( 1902 – 1989 ) an American actress, best remembered for her role as Aunt Bee on The Andy Griffith Show, a television sitcom in the 1960s set in the fictional town of Mayberry, North Carolina.

An historical marker ( pictured ) notes the location of the Fort Yates burial site.

Tiltonsville is the location of the Hodgen's Cemetery Mound, a burial mound built by the prehistoric Adena culture.

Marion is best known as the hometown and burial location of President Warren G. Harding and First Lady Florence Harding.

Miamisburg is the location of a prehistoric Indian burial mound ( tumulus ), believed to have been built by the Adena Culture, about 1000 to 200 BCE.

St. Paul Pioneer Cemetery, founded in 1839, is the burial location for William Cannon, the only authenticated Revolutionary War veteran buried in Oregon.

that is how the Jews prepare a body for burial.

In particular, there is no change in burial practice, and tumulus warrior graves continued to be erected throughout Merovingian times.

" Tradition, reported by George Chalmers in his Caledonia ( 1807 ), and by the New Statistical Account ( 1834 – 1845 ), has it that the early-historic mound of the Cunninghillock by Inverurie is the burial place of Áed.

The oldest known mention of Anubis is in the Old Kingdom pyramid texts, where he is associated with the burial of the pharaoh.

* c. 3500 BC: Senet is played in Predynastic Egypt as evidenced by its inclusion in burial sites ; also depicted in the tomb of Merknera.

Later in his life, Beowulf is himself king of the Geats, and finds his realm terrorised by a dragon whose treasure had been stolen from his hoard in a burial mound.

He is buried in a tumulus or burial mound, by the sea.

The setting and plot also suggest that the lament is funeral: the Last Survivor describes burial offerings similar to those in the funerals of Scyld Scefing, Hildeburg ’ s kin, and Beowulf.

This is an animal sacrifice, which was a burial custom during the era in which the poem takes place.

" The Protestation of Guiltlessness ," from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, is a collection of assertions of innocence which were included in ancient Egyptian burial rites, and is often compared to Job, especially chapter 31.

In the Coptic Orthodox Church chapter three is chanted on the twelfth hour of the Good Friday service, that commemorates the burial of Jesus.

Hanging on the western wall is Queen Victoria's burial flag, given to the college soon after her death.

It is said that, in 1038, they were dispersed in winter quarters in the Thracesian theme when one of their number attempted to violate a countrywoman, but in the struggle she seized his sword and killed him ; instead of taking revenge, however, his comrades applauded her conduct, compensated her with all his possessions, and exposed his body without burial as if he had committed suicide.

A chambered cairn is a burial monument, usually constructed during the Neolithic, consisting of a cairn of stones inside which a sizeable ( usually stone ) chamber was constructed.

During the late Neolithic henge sites were constructed, single burials began to become more commonplace and by the Bronze Age it is possible that even where chambered cairns were still being built they had become the burial places of prominent individuals rather than of communities as a whole.

The burial chamber is normally located at one end of a rectangular or trapezoidal cairn, while a roofless, semi-circular forecourt at the entrance provided access from the outside ( although the entrance itself was often blocked ), and gives this type of chambered cairn its alternate name of court tomb or court cairn.

Just inside the entrance is The Stone of Anointing, also known as The Stone of Unction, which tradition claims to be the spot where Jesus ' body was prepared for burial by Joseph of Arimathea.

One might note, however, that what is assumed to be a niche for the Torah scroll in the building probably originally built as a Judeo-Christian synagogue between AD 70 and AD 135 on the traditional site of the Cenacle or upper room of the Last Supper and now identified as the site of the King David's Tomb is oriented not towards the Temple Mount, but towards the site of the Holy Sepulchre, which would seem to indicate that the Christian community that had built it had already began to transfer many of the religious traditions originally associated with the Temple to the sites they associated with Christ's death and resurrection ( such as the burial place of Adam and the centre of the world ).

It contains the Dutch royal family's burial vault, which between funerals is sealed with a 5000 kg cover stone.

The haugbui was rarely found far from its burial place and is a type of undead commonly found in Norse saga material.

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