:* Partial reconstruction of the Monument, a large and elaborate Lykian tomb from the site of Xanthos in south-west Turkey

Crossing rediscovered the original site of the tomb in 1882 and said that all that remained was a small mound and some half buried stones.

An early Classic ( 460 – 480 AD ) period Mayan tomb from the site of Rio Azul, Guatemala, had vessels with the Maya glyph for cacao on them with residue of a chocolate drink.

" In 1537, the Bishop of Calahorra ordered the tomb destroyed and the remains transferred to an unconsecrated site outside the church.

The Bible describes Jesus ' tomb as being outside the city wall, as was normal for burials across the ancient world, which were regarded as unclean, but the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is in the heart of Hadrian's city, well within the Old City walls, which were built by Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent in 1538 Some have claimed that the city had been much narrower in Jesus ' time, with the site then having been outside the walls ; since Herod Agrippa ( 41 – 44 ) is recorded by history as extending the city to the north ( beyond the present northern walls ), the required repositioning of the western wall is traditionally attributed to him as well.

However, a wall would imply the existence of a defensive ditch outside it, so an earlier wall could not be immediately adjacent to site of the tomb, which combined with the presence of the Temple Mount would make the city inside the wall quite thin ; essentially for the traditional site to have been outside the wall, the city would have had to be limited to the lower parts of the Tyropoeon Valley, rather than including the defensively advantageous western hill.

Although the identification of the Aedicule as the site of Jesus ' tomb is not a tenet of faith for any major Christian denomination, many Catholic and Orthodox Christians hold fast to this traditional location.

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.

Currently, no other potential site for the tomb has received much attention or academic support.

His tomb at Al-ʻUzair on the banks of the Tigris near Basra, Iraq, is a pilgrimage site for the local Marsh Arabs.

The actual site of Kōgyoku / Saimei's grave is known, having been identified as the Kengoshizuka tomb in the village of Asuka, Nara Prefecture.

From the site of his tomb the Emperor Seiwa is sometimes referred to as the.

Tradition holds that Habakkuk was buried here, but the site may actually be the tomb of a local sheikh of Yaquq, whose name was misunderstood to sound like " Habakkuk ".

At this site in County Meath the inner chamber of the passage tomb is aligned with the rising sun on the dates of Imbolc and Samhain.

In 1992, the then Greek Orthodox Metropolitan Ieronymos of Thebes and Levathia ( the current Archbishop of Athens and All Greece ) requested from Bishop Antonio Mattiazzo of Padua the return of a a significant fragment of the relics of St. Luke to be placed on the site where the holy tomb of the Evangelist is located and venerated today.

In 1957, Rodney Young and a team from the University of Pennsylvania opened a chamber tomb at the heart of the Great Tumulus ( in Greek, Μεγάλη Τούμπα )— 53 metres in height, about 300 metres in diameter — on the site of ancient Gordion ( modern Yassihöyük, Turkey ), where there are more than 100 tumuli of different sizes and from different periods.

The identification of the tumulus as a " tomb " has been challenged ; another interpretation is that it was a religious site dedicated to Cybele.

Few Jews visit the historic site, yet Jajouhana continues to keep the promise he made with his Jewish friends, and looks after the tomb.

At the time the documents may have served to underline Taiseki-ji's supposed superiority amongst Nikkō-temples, especially in respect to Ikegami Honmon-ji the site of Nikkō's tomb.

The site of his sepulchre was discovered by De Rossi in 1854, with some broken remnants of the Greek epitaph engraved on the narrow oblong slab that closed his tomb and only the Greek term for bishop readable.

Accompanied by Agent One, he makes his way through the town and infiltrates a secret archaeological dig site where Helga Von Bulow and her SS Paranormal Division are attempting to acquire a pair of ancient magical tablets from a cursed tomb.

On 17 February 1818, workmen breaking ground on the new parish church to be built on the site of the eastern choir of Dunfermline Abbey uncovered a tomb before the site of the former abbey high altar.

The current building on the site of the choir of the old Abbey church is a Parish Church of the Church of Scotland, still with the name Dunfermline Abbey.

The first crossing at what is now the site of the bridge was established in the 11th century by Margaret, queen consort of King Malcolm III, who founded a ferry service to transport religious pilgrims from Edinburgh to Dunfermline Abbey and St Andrews.

Other concert halls that bear Carnegie's name include 420-seat Carnegie Hall in Lewisburg, West Virginia ; 1928-seat Carnegie Music Hall in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on the main site of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh ; 1022-seat Carnegie Music Hall annexed to Pittsburgh suburb Homestead's Carnegie library ; and Carnegie Hall, a 540-seat venue, in Andrew Carnegie's native Dunfermline.

Dunfermline Palace is attached to the historic Dunfermline Abbey, occupying a site between the abbey and deep gorge to the south.

* 1951 – The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey.

An archaeological investigation of the site of the visitors ' centre before building started revealed the foundations of the medieval precinct wall, with a gateway, and stonework discarded during manufacture, showing that the area was the site of the masons ' yard while the Abbey was being built.

Noteworthy, too, is St. Mildred's Priory, Isle of Thanet, Kent, built in 1027 on the site of an Abbey founded in 670 by the daughter of the first Christian King of Kent.

Around 613 an Irish monk named Gallus, a disciple and companion of Saint Columbanus, established a hermitage on the site that would become the Abbey.

* Gallus ( 613-648 ) Hermit, the Abbey was built on the traditional site of his cell.

Traditionally, William is credited with founding Arbroath Abbey, the site of the later Declaration of Arbroath.

In 1070 William also founded Battle Abbey, a new monastery at the site of the Battle of Hastings, partly as a penance for the deaths in the battle and partly as a memorial to those dead.

* A shrine on the site of the future Westminster Abbey is founded.

An earthquake damaged the Abbey in 1349, and although the site was rebuilt it marked the beginning of a long period of decline.

The spot where Harold died which became the site of Battle Abbey

According to a tradition first reported by Sulcard in about 1080, the Abbey was first founded in the time of Mellitus ( d. 624 ), Bishop of London, on the present site, then known as Thorn Ey ( Thorn Island ); based on a late tradition that a fisherman called Aldrich on the River Thames saw a vision of Saint Peter near the site.

Battle Abbey marks the site where it is believed that the battle was fought.

Battle Abbey was built on the site of the battle.

The site of the fighting was along and either side of a earthen causeway leading from the Abbey Craig, atop which the Wallace Monument is now located, to the northern end of the bridge.

Strata Florida Abbey was the site of the council of 1238.

Evesham Abbey and the site of de Montfort's grave were destroyed with the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the sixteenth century.

Gorhambury belonged to St Albans Abbey and lay near the site of the vanished Roman city of Verulamium ( modern day St Albans ).

Another important historical religious site in the area is the ruins of Cambuskenneth Abbey, the resting place of King James III of Scotland and his queen, Margaret of Denmark.