* Excavated tombs ; Of either the pit, chamber or the tholos kind, in which the dead were laid, together with various objects of use and luxury, without cremation, and in either coffins or loculi or simple wrappings.

This is completely different from the Indus civilization where bodies were buried in wooden coffins.

The bodies were placed in coffins and were moved around Russia during struggles between the White and the opposing Red Army.

By 1920 the coffins were interred in a former Russian Mission in Beijing, now beneath a parking area.

As well, the inner coffins found in the tombs were also made of wood.

The story went on to report that as many as 200 bodies were stored on " makeshift gurneys in the garage " and " at least half a dozen veterans destined for the hallowed ground at Arlington National Cemetery were left in their coffins on a garage rack ".

The two sisters, Isis and Nephthys, often were depicted on coffins, with wings outstretched, as protectors against evil.

While some areas ambulances were staffed by advanced first-aid-level responders, in other areas, it was common for the local undertaker, having the only transport in town in which one could lie down, to operate both the local furniture store ( where he would make coffins as a sideline ) and the local ambulance service.

* In folklore, Saturday was the preferred day to hunt vampires, because on that day they were restricted to their coffins.

It was said that a Joe Bonanno-owned funeral parlor in Brooklyn was utilized as a convenient front for disposing of bodies: the funeral home's clients were provided with double — decker coffins, and more than one body would be buried at once.

The adaptation also includes some lines from Q1 which were removed in subsequent editions ; at 1. 1. 35 Titus ' " bearing his valiant sons / in coffins from the field " continues with " and at this day ,/ To the Monument of that Andronicy / Done sacrifice of expiation ,/ And slaine the Noblest prisoner of the Gothes.

The coffins of royal family members who died between 1815 and 1830 were also placed in the vaults.

During the excavation for the royal tomb house for King George III under the Wolsey tomb-house in 1810-1813 two lead coffins clearly labelled as George Plantagenet and Mary Plantagenet were discovered and moved into the adjoining vault of Edward IV's but at the time no effort was made to identify the two lead coffins already in the vault.

A request was forwarded to the Dean and Canons of Windsor to consider a possible examination of the two vaults either by fibre-optic camera or, if possible, a reexamination of the two unidentified lead coffins in the tomb also housing the lead coffins of two of Edward IV's children that were discovered during the building of the Royal Tomb for King George III ( 1810 – 1813 ) and placed in the adjoining vault at that time.

More than 180 coffins containing the remains of 186 victims were found in the tomb.

The monastery church on the site at that time was probably constructed by Æthelbald to house the royal mausoleum ; other burials there include that of Wigstan, but nearly all of the Royal coffins in Repton were probably vandalised and destroyed by the Vikings ..

They were encased in coffins made from hollowed trunks of larch ( which may have had sacral significance ) and sometimes accompanied by sacrificed concubines and horses.

The three men were buried in lead coffins and that entire section of the site was buried.

Noah French, who came from Pennsylvania, was a cabinet maker and made coffins that were needed within a radius of of Christiansburg.

The coffins were thrown over the fence onto an adjoining field.

Hours later from the window, he sees Orlok piling up coffins on a coach and climbing into the last one before the coach departs.

Over time, graves became more complex, with the body placed in a wicker basket, then later in wooden or terracotta coffins.

Although they have been called a dozen other names ( later fisherman upon seeing floating coffins, ghostly faces and shrouded bodies amid the rocks dubbed them: Old Stone Face, The Sarcophagi, Dead Man's Island, and Corpus Christi ) they also have also been provocatively called The Sentries of San Diego Bay even though they belong to Mexico.

In the earlier poem, a young chimney sweeper recounts a dream had by one of his fellows, in which an angel rescues the boys from coffins and takes them to a sunny meadow ; in the later poem, an apparently adult speaker encounters a child chimney sweeper abandoned in the snow while his parents are at church or possibly even suffered death where church is referring to being with God.

An unidentified mummy, recovered from DB320 and found within coffins prepared by Thutmose III for Thutmose I is usually identified as the later king.

Mummies, coffins and other remains show that the tomb was later reused during the 21st and 22nd dynasties, and robber tunnels have led the way to new and unrecorded tombs, whose entrances cannot be located from outside.

The coffins were discovered by U. S. Army Ordnance troops on 27 April 1945, and were moved to the basement of the heavily guarded Marburg Castle in Marburg an der Lahn, Germany.

Keynsham Clock TowerEvidence of occupation dates back to prehistoric times, and the town site is scattered with Roman remains, such as the Roman villas at Somerdale which were discovered during the construction of the factory in 1922, and included the discovery of two stone coffins, a villa with nine intact panels of mosaic flooring at Durley Hill and a burial site between Keynsham and Saltford.

Carter, however, also discovered 2 separate coffins in the burial chamber.

The article suggests that the number of empty coffins that have been discovered " proves beyond a doubt that at this time body snatching was frequent ".

This commission discovered that Hoborn had had coffins built, for himself and his wife, out of Dockyard timbers, and a bedstead that was probably made for Commissioner Pett.

Many slate coffins and artifacts were discovered, and after a proposal by the Taitung City Government, construction on the station was halted.

Le Gentil also argues that the mention of Avalon shows that he wrote Joseph d ' Arimathe after 1191, when the monks at Glastonbury claimed to have discovered the coffins of King Arthur and Guinevere.

After entering the cave, Fokin's men discovered a strange machine which they called the " sarcophagus " ( because of its visual similarity to ancient ritual coffins ).

On the other hand, it was discovered that unscrupulous contractors buried some crude empty coffins in the relocated graves to increase their profits.

Both Psusennes I and Amenemopet's royal tombs were discovered intact by the French Egyptologist Pierre Montet in his excavation at Tanis in 1940 and were filled with significant treasures including gold funerary masks, coffins and numerous other items of precious jewelry.

When the coffins were opened it was discovered that all of the corpses except that of the Knight Kahlbutz had decayed.

" In 698 Cuthbert was reburied at Lindisfarne in the decorated oak coffin now usually meant by St Cuthbert's coffin, though he was to have many more coffins.

There is a set of gates set in the southern outside wall to the cemetery which is adjacent to the Grand Union Canal, where it is said that coffins carried by barge could be unloaded.

3 cafes, 2 banks, a newspaper, a bakery, drugstore, meat markets, grocery stores, a barber shop, a military shop, a large department store owned and operated by Mr. John Bradshaw ( even sold coffins ).

As part of the village's tradition, he is taken by a group of warriors to a castle surrounded by water, and locked inside one of the stone coffins in a crypt.

Kensal Green Cemetery is distinguished by three catacombs for the deposit of lead-sealed, triple-shelled coffins and cremated remains.

* Alfred Russel Wallace described events occurring in the Baltic in 1844: " During the disturbances at the Cemetery of Ahrensburg in the island of Oesel, where coffins were overturned in locked vaults, and the case was investigated by an official commission, the horses of country people visiting the cemetery were often so alarmed and excited that they became covered with sweat and foam.

The greatly reduced space taken up by an ossuary means that it is possible to store the remains of many more people in a single tomb than if the original coffins were left as is.

In the United States, coffins are usually covered by a grave liner or a burial vault, which prevents the coffin from collapsing under the weight of the earth or floating away during a flood.

The coffins were nailed shut once the body was inside, and carried by hand or wagon, depending on the property designated for slave burial site.

In some cases, the coffins ( or urns ) may simply be buried side by side.

There were reports that the health-care workers could not tend the sick nor the gravediggers bury the dead because they too were ill. Mass graves were dug by steam shovel and bodies buried without coffins in many places.

Inspired by the rock ' n ' roll group KISS, he requested in his will that he be buried in one of the famous coffins.

In the latter case, the bodies had been first " temporarily " buried in Gucheng in light-weight coffins, and when, after three or so years in the grave the flesh had been mostly " consumed away ", the merchant guild sent the bodies to the east by a special caravan.

The fares for the transport of mourners and coffins on the London Necropolis Railway had been fixed by Parliament in 1852 at 6s for a living first class passenger and £ 1 for a first class coffin ( in 1891 worth about £ and £ respectively in consumer terms ).

As a former Assistant District Officer in Tai Po recalls, one of the claimed concerns of the villager elders at the time was to be able to carry coffins across the tracks to the nearest road as not all villages were served by an alternate road access.

The hanging Coffins are also found in the province, these are literally coffins hanging on to the branches of trees, many tourists claim there is no foul odor, the bodies were probably mummified by the atmosphere according to theory.