But even for them it remains a museum, or perhaps it would be more accurate to say a tomb, a tomb in which Persia lies well preserved but indeed dead.

After his death, the king was buried in the church which he had built ; his original tomb has been lost, while his alleged remains are preserved in the shrine where he was reburied after being declared a saint ; his saintliness, however, was never very widely acknowledged outside the bishopric of Liège where he may still be venerated by tradition.

Although it was recognized that certain tributaries, represented for example, in the XVIIIth Dynasty tomb of Rekhmara at Egyptian Thebes as bearing vases of peculiar forms, were of some Mediterranean race, neither their precise habitat nor the degree of their civilization could be determined while so few actual prehistoric remains were known in the Mediterranean lands.

Bede's remains may have been transferred to Durham Cathedral in the 11th century ; his tomb there was looted in 1541, but the contents were probably re-interred in the Galilee chapel at the cathedral.

The following day Anthemios found the tomb and inside it the remains of Barnabas with a manuscript of Matthew's Gospel on his breast.

Anthemios then placed the venerable remains of Barnabas in a church which he founded near the tomb.

The chest tomb in the chancel is believed to contain the remains of Sir Thomas Cheddar and is dated 1442.

Caligula collected and brought back the bones of his mother and of his brothers and deposited their remains in the tomb of Augustus.

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

According to tradition, Constantine arranged for the rockface to be removed from around the tomb, without harming it, in order to isolate the tomb ; in the centre of the rotunda is a small building called the Kouvouklion ( Kουβούκλιον ; Modern Greek for small compartment ) or Aedicule ( from Latin: aediculum, small building ), which supposedly encloses this tomb, although it is not currently possible to verify the claim, as the remains are completely enveloped by a marble sheath.

After the Jewish exodus from Iraq, Jewish activity in the tomb ceased although a disused Synagogue remains in place.

Archaeologists have found honey remains on the inner surface of clay vessels unearthed an ancient tomb, dating back to some 4, 700 – 5, 500 years ago.

The location of Imhotep's self-constructed tomb was well hidden from the beginning and it remains unknown, despite efforts to find it.

It is possible, with permission from the monks, to see the original tomb where the remains were found.

His other remains were carried to Bursa, his Anatolian capital city, and were buried in a tomb at the complex built in his name.

In 1836 – 1837 a cenotaph was built for Mieszko I and his successor Bolesław I the Brave in the Golden Chapel () at the Poznań Cathedral, where the damaged remains found in the 14th century tomb of Bolesław were placed.

Subsequently his remains were sent back to the Cretans, who placed them in a sarcophagus, on which was inscribed: " The tomb of Minos, the son of Zeus.

On the remains of a wooden coffin in the northwest corner of the tomb lay a skeleton of a man 1. 59 metres in height and about 60 years old.

Nostradamus ' current tomb in the Collégiale Saint-Laurent, Salon, into which his scattered remains were transferred after 1789.

He was buried in the local Franciscan chapel in Salon ( part of it now incorporated into the restaurant La Brocherie ) but re-interred during the French Revolution in the Collégiale Saint-Laurent, where his tomb remains to this day.

However, some years after his death, his remains were put into a tomb that contained the first four Pope Leos.

Acts of formal recognition, such as the erection of an altar over the saint's tomb or transferring the saint's relics to a church, were preceded by formal inquiries into the sanctity of the person's life and the miracles attributed to that person's intercession.

J. Brooking Rowe, writing in 1895, states that the tomb was re-erected in 1890 under the direction of Mr. E. Fearnley Tanner, who said that he was dissatisfied with the result because several stones were missing and it was difficult to recreate the original character of the monument.

According to certain authorities, twelve teeth of the saint were taken from the tomb in the fifteenth century and kept in the treasury, but these have now disappeared ( Stokes, Apennines, p. 183 ).

Daniel Zohary and Maria Hopf note that celery leaves and inflorescences were part of the garlands found in the tomb of pharaoh Tutankhamun ( died 1323 BC ), and celery mericarps dated to the seventh century BC were recovered in the Heraion of Samos.

Cavalry tactics in China were enhanced by the invention of the saddle-attached stirrup by at least the 4th century, as the oldest reliable depiction of a rider with paired stirrups was found in a Jin Dynasty tomb of the year 322 AD.

Handheld crossbows with complex bronze trigger mechanisms have also been found with the Terracotta Army in the tomb of Qin Shihuang ( r. 221 – 210 BC ) that are similar to specimens from the subsequent Han Dynasty ( 202 BC – 220 AD ), while crossbowmen described in the Qin and Han Dynasty learned drill formations, some were even mounted as cavalry units, and Han Dynasty writers attributed the success of numerous battles against the Xiongnu to massed crossbow fire.

The Edicule and the east and west walls and the roof of the cut-rock tomb it encased were destroyed or damaged ( contemporary accounts vary ), but the north and south walls were likely protected by rubble from further damage.

" Some minor repairs were done to the section believed to be the tomb of Jesus almost immediately after 1009, but a true attempt at restoration would have to wait for decades.

Virgilio Canio Corbo, a Franciscan priest and archaeologist, who was present at the excavations, estimated from the archaeological evidence that the western retaining wall, of the temple itself, would have passed extremely close to the east side of the supposed tomb ; if the wall had been any further west any tomb would have been crushed under the weight of the wall ( which would be immediately above it ) if it had not already been destroyed when foundations for the wall were made.

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.

" Although several twigs of dill were found in the tomb of Amenhotep II, they reported the earliest archeological evidence for its cultivation comes from late Neolithic lakeshore settlements in Switzerland.

Purple robes and a weighty gold loincloth were the only objects found in her tomb.

A sphere and cylinder were placed on the tomb of Archimedes at his request.

Once there, the relics made it known they were unhappy with their new tomb and thus had to be moved again to Mulinheim.

Originally, an elaborate framework would be erected over a coffin or tomb to which memorial verses or epitaphs were attached.

These rituals were based on the tradition of the tomb of Christian Rosenkreuz, and a Vault of Adepts became the controlling force behind the Outer Order.

Because the medical " silk manuscripts " dating from around 200 BC that were excavated in the 1970s from the tomb of a Han-dynasty noble in Mawangdui are undoubtedly ancestors of the received Neijing, scholars like Nathan Sivin now argue that the Neijing was first compiled in the 1st century BC.

Stay and mourn at the tomb of dead KroisosWhom raging Ares destroyed one day, fighting in the foremost ranks.

The tomb was virtually destroyed in 1812 by a man who stole most of the stones to build a house nearby, but it was partly reconstructed in 1890.

He was buried in Viterbo Cathedral, but his tomb was destroyed during sixteenth-century renovations.

His tomb was destroyed in the Sack of Rome in 1527.

This tomb was again destroyed during the French Revolution, but was eventually replaced with the current marker.

In 1220, Becket's remains were relocated from this first tomb to a shrine, in the recently completed Trinity Chapel where it stood until it was destroyed in 1538, during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, on orders from King Henry VIII.

Her tomb originally boasted an alabaster memorial, which was deliberately destroyed during extensions to the abbey in the reign of her grandson, Henry VII.

On the way back he conquered part of Silesia including Wrocław and destroyed religious buildings, which were built by Mieszko I during the feast of the conversion of Poland, and plundered Mieszko I's tomb.

The tomb and effigy was destroyed in the French Revolution, his remains were reburied and a new tomb built in 1839.

On Yom Kippur eve, October 3, 1976, an Arab mob destroyed several Torah scrolls and prayer books at the tomb.

It was in this year that some Huguenots destroyed the tomb and remains of Saint Irenaeus ( d. 202 ), an early Church father and bishop who was a disciple of Polycarp.

Сycnus was buried by his father-in-law Сeyx and people of the neighboring cities, but his tomb was destroyed during a flood by the will of Apollo.

Her tomb was moved to the cemetery by the nuns ' chapter house, where it could be visited until it was destroyed in the Dissolution of the Monasteries under Henry VIII of England.

The tomb of Nepherites I, which Donald Reford concluded was destroyed by the Persians, was discovered by a joint team from the University of Washington and the University of Toronto in 1992-1993.

Soon after Japan's defeat, the Kuomintang government under Chiang Kai-shek moved its capital back to Nanjing, destroyed Wang's tomb, and burned the body.

The real tomb was destroyed by the Turks after the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 and subsequent conversion of Hagia Sophia into a mosque.

He was buried in the Dresden Frauenkirche but his tomb has been destroyed.

Most of these items were lost when a 1995 fire destroyed the Rova of Antananarivo where the tomb was located.

He was buried in Durham Cathedral, where his tomb was destroyed by the Scots in 1640.