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The elaborate rock-cut tombs of the Israelite period, dating from the 9th to the 7th centuries BCE are found on the ridge on the far side of the Kidron Valley in and under the Arab village of Silwan.
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Cave 6 is directly beside Cave 5 and consists of rock-cut cella entered through an elaborate T-shaped door.
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Passage tombs of the cairn type often have elaborate corbelled roofs rather than simple slabs.
Although some historians claim that ancient Egyptian society was a “ death cult ” because of its elaborate tombs and mummification rituals, it was really quite the opposite.
Archaeological remains of the Scythians include kurgan tombs ( ranging from simple exemplars to elaborate " Royal kurgans " containing the " Scythian triad " of weapons, horse-harness, and Scythian-style wild-animal art ), gold, silk, and animal sacrifices, in places also with suspected human sacrifices.
* Rock-cut tombs, a form widespread in the ancient world, in which the tomb is not built but carved out of the rock and can be a free-standing building but is more commonly a cave, which may be extensive and may or may not have an elaborate facade.
These are large, elaborate tombs of finely-cut stone, such as could only have been built by the highest-ranking members of a wealthy society.
The cemetery contains many elaborate marble mausoleums, decorated with statues, in a wide variety of architectural styles such as Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Baroque, and Neo-Gothic, and most materials used between 1880 and 1930 in the construction of tombs were imported from Paris and Milan.
The proposals varied in design, from elaborate monumental tombs that, if built, would have been bigger than the Lincoln Memorial, to smaller monuments just outside the Smithsonian Castle.
This wealth is evident in the wide array of finds from the Pazyryk tombs, which include many rare examples of organic objects such as felt hangings, Chinese silk, the earliest known pile carpet, horses decked out in elaborate trappings, and wooden furniture and other household goods.
Natron was added to castor oil to make a smokeless fuel, which allowed Egyptian artisans to paint elaborate artworks inside ancient tombs without staining them with soot.
For example, earrings discovered in Silla and Kaya tombs are very similar to Japanese earrings dated to the Kofun period, " The ultimate source of such elaborate techniques as granulation is probably the Greek and Etruscan goldsmiths of western Asia and Europe, whose skills were transmitted to northern China and later to Korea.
In the 1968 field season, after excavating many tombs in Structure B-4, also called the Temple of the Masonry Altars, the seventh phase of construction revealed the most elaborate tomb at the site nicknamed “ The Sun God ’ s Tomb ”.
Some were built to be freestanding, as a part of an elaborate tomb or series of tombs, while others were intended for placement in crypts.
Various Thracian kings and chieftains were buried in elaborate mound tombs found in modern Bulgaria ; Philip II of Macedon, the father of Alexander the Great, was buried in a magnificent kurgan in present Greece ; and Midas, a king of ancient Phrygia, was buried in a kurgan near his ancient capital of Gordion
Cornelia honored the memory of her sons ' murders by constructing elaborate tombs at the spot of their deaths.
With the dawn of the Asuka period the use of elaborate kofun tombs by the imperial family and other elite fell out of use because of prevailing new Buddhist beliefs, which put greater emphasis on the transience of human life.
The use of elaborate kofun tombs by the imperial family and other elite thus fell out of use amidst the rise of prevailing new Buddhist beliefs, which put greater emphasis on the transience of human life.
The crypts on average are more elaborate than at the other St. Louis cemeteries, including a number of fine 19th century marble tombs.
At roughly this time, the provincial aristocracy began building elaborate tombs for themselves, which have been taken as evidence of the wealth and power which these rulers had acquired as Nomarchs.
The title of Nomarch continued to be used until the reign of Senusret III, as did the elaborate tombs indicative of their power, after which they suddenly disappear.
As a ceremonial center, La Venta contains an elaborate series of buried offerings and tombs, as well as monumental sculptures.
Diehl states that these tombs " are so elaborate and so integrated to the architecture that it seems clear that Complex A really was a mortuary complex dedicated to the spirits of deceased rulers ".
Excavated sculpture shows that the church at Netley featured a number of elaborate tombs and monuments.
However, what makes Mitla unique among Mesoamerican sites is the elaborate and intricate mosaic fretwork and geometric designs that cover tombs, panels, friezes and even entire walls.
The north and east buildings of the group have elaborate tombs where high priests and Zapotec rulers were buried.
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In the course of his negotiations Fay made an elaborate study of the Jewish question as it affected Switzerland, and in June 1859, transmitted what he called his " Israelite Note " to the Federal Council.
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An elaborate set of stairs were built and the well served as an invaluable, protected source of drinking water during times of siege for some portion of the Mycenaean period.
By that period, the shiny armour plate was covered in dark paint and a canvas wrap covered their elaborate Napoleonic style helmets.
* Rosh Chodesh observance during at least a portion of the period of the prophets could be fairly elaborate.
Siege towers also became more elaborate during the medieval period ; at the Siege of Kenilworth Castle in 1266, for example, 200 archers and 11 catapults operated from a single tower.
( This is perhaps because in the United States so-called fancy cancels were prevalent in this period, with the cancelling device often hand-cut from cork by the postmaster in elaborate shapes such as flags, stars or shapes that were seasonally-appropriate such as turkeys for Thanksgiving ).
They are expensive and lavish to produce, because they require elaborate and panoramic settings, on-location filming, authentic period costumes, inflated action on a massive scale and large casts of characters.
The cemetery also offers a view of the changing style of death monuments in Ireland over the last 200 years: from the austere, simple, high stone erections of the period up until the 1860s, to the elaborate Celtic crosses of the nationalistic revival from the 1860s to 1960s, to the plain Italian marble of the late twentieth century.
His writings in this period failed to elaborate what he meant by the " Marxist method of political and class analysis ".
The first building of Eanna, Stone-Cone Temple ( Mosaic Temple ), was built in period VI over a preexisting Ubaid temple and is enclosed by a limestone wall with an elaborate system of buttresses.
Display books of the Gothic period in particular had very elaborate decorated borders of foliate patterns, often with small drolleries.
Some of the skeletons are intact and draped with Franciscan habits, but for the most part, individual bones are used to create elaborate ornamental designs — as was popular at that period.
On several occasions during this period, political cartoonist Herblock depicted Dirksen and Halleck as vaudeville song-and-dance men, wearing identical elaborate costumes and performing an act called " The Ev and Charlie Show ".
The Parliament albums of this period had become concept albums with themes from science fiction and afro-futurism, elaborate political and sociological themes, and an evolving storyline with recurring fictional characters.
The upper reading room, or Cohen Room, has an elaborate plastered ceiling and the Senior Library ( downstairs ) holds some of the college's older books, including pamphlets from the English Civil War period, Wesleyana, and plays dating from the late 17th and early 18th centuries, as well as a small collection of manuscripts.
During this period EWF concerts started to become loaded with pyrotechnics, magic, laser lights, flying pyramids, levitating guitarists and elaborate production tricks, that included the entire group ascending in a pyramid and a disappearing act, which saw EWF literally vanishing from sight.
These elaborate scenes reached their artistic apogee in the Kingdom of Naples in the 16th to 18th centuries, but also Genoa had an important tradition in the same period, which major artist was Anton Maria Maragliano.
Japan's historical Shōsōin, which houses 8th-century artifacts including material from Japan's Tempyō period, contains an elaborate miniature display dating from this time.
A simpler sugoroku, with rules similar to snakes and ladders, appeared as early as late 13th century and was made popular due to the cheap and elaborate wooden block printing technology of the Edo period.
Tassels and their associated forms changed style throughout the years, from the small and casual of Renaissance designs, through the medium sizes and more staid designs of the Empire period, and to the Victorian Era with the largest and most elaborate.
A detailed account of the kingdom written by a buccaneer known only as M. W. describes its organization as being fundamentally egalitarian, with the king, and some officials ( usually called " Captains " in that period but later being more elaborate ) were primarily military leaders, but only in time of war.
This is now considered most unlikely as it would consign all the numerous and elaborate engravings made by Mantegna to the last sixteen or seventeen years of his life, which seems a scanty space for them, and besides the earlier engravings indicate an earlier period of his artistic style.
The genus Cyclotorna has even more elaborate habits, beginning its growth period parasitising plant bugs, and concluding by feeding on ant larvae in their colonies.
Following a period studying in Rome, Parma and Venice, Giordano developed an elaborate Baroque style fusing Venetian and Roman Influences.
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