Many early tomb paintings were meant to protect the dead or help their souls get to paradise.

Whereas he had been required to undertake much fieldwork and excavation whilst at Edinburgh, at the Institute his position as Director meant that this was not necessary, although he did undertake one excavation at Maes Howe, a Neolithic burial tomb plundered by Early Medieaval Norse raiders, during 1954 – 55.

The mourning daughters beside the tomb are not meant to be lifelike representations of her actual daughters, Anne, Frances and Elizabeth ; they conform to a stereotype often observed on grand monuments of this kind.

Miracles and healing were not regularly attributed to them ; rather, their presence was meant to serve a tutelary function, as the tomb of Oedipus was said to protect Athens.

Many early tomb paintings were meant to protect the dead or help their souls get to paradise.

When the villainous Shadow Thief attacks, the tomb collapses, after which Shadow Thief escapes, and Hawkman departs, still believing that he and Shayera are meant for each other.

Since Daoguang already had a tomb built for Yixin's mother before she died and ordered that she be buried there after death, this meant that he only regarded her as a secondary spouse, so her son would never become emperor ).

The entire tomb and the garden is enclosed within high rubble walls on three sides, the fourth side was meant to be the river Yamuna, which has since shifted course away from the structure.

The empty tomb was, in his opinion, an unnecessary hypothesis, since “ an eschatological, bodily resurrection, theologically speaking, has nothing to do, however, with a corpse .” That was merely a " crude and naive realism of what ‘ appearances of Jesus ’" meant.

The walls of the tomb are not decorated and were probably never meant to be: the walls are unplastered and were not smoothed.

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.

The Lenin tomb is obviously adequate for double occupancy, Moscow is a crowded city, and the creed of Communism deplores waste.

In July 2006, the tomb of the king ( which is located in the Santa Cruz Monastery in Coimbra ) was to be opened for scientific purposes by researchers from the University of Coimbra ( Portugal ), and the University of Granada ( Spain ).

The opening of the tomb provoked considerable concern among some sectors of Portuguese society and IPPAR – Instituto Português do Património Arquitectónico ( Portuguese State Agency for Architectural Patrimony ).

He was buried at the royal necropolis of Sais, and while his tomb was never discovered, Herodotus describes it for us:

He spent about two years of unremitting toil in arranging the design and composing the models for the tomb of the pontiff.

* Santa Maria di Montesanto, Naples, for his tomb

The route taken is up to the arch and then around its side, out of respect for the tomb and its symbolism.

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.

He was buried in Bahcekapi, a tomb he had built for himself.

The city is also famous for the Convento de Jesus ( now known as the City Museum " Santa Joana "), built in the 15th century, which contains the tomb of the daughter of Afonso V, St. Joana, who died in 1490.

:" There is the port of Saint Ansgar and the tomb of the holy Archbishop Unni, and a familiar haven, it is said, for the holy confessors of our diocese.

When the city fell to the Turks in 1453, the church was demolished to make room for the tomb of Mehmet II the Conqueror.

Unlike earlier texts like Recipes for Fifty-Two Ailments, which was excavated in the 1970s from a tomb that had been sealed in 168 BCE, the Inner Canon rejected the influence of spirits and the use of magic.

" Declaration ' Non Cultus '" At some point, permission is then granted for the body of the Servant of God to be exhumed and examined, a certification (" non cultus ") is made that no superstitious or heretical worship or improper cult has grown up around the servant or his or her tomb, and relics are taken.

Sluter was also responsible for the main part of the work on Philip's tomb, which ( restored and partly reconstructed ) has been moved to the Museum of Fine Arts which is housed in the former ducal palace in Dijon.

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.

Some examples of Cirth writings are the inscription on Balin's tomb in Moria and the inscriptions on the top of the title pages for The Lord of the Rings.

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.

A wreath will be placed at the tomb of George Washington, one of this Nation's first Masons -- a past master of Washington-Alexandria Lodge 22 in Alexandria.

It has helped to sponsor popular traveling exhibits, such as an early 2010s " King Tut " exhibit featuring magnificent artifacts from the tomb of the young Egyptian Pharaoh ; " The Cultural Treasures of Afghanistan " which opened in May 2008 and traveled to other cities for 18 months ; and an exhibition of China's Terracotta Warriors in its Washington headquarters in 2009 – 10.

It was designed to look down on the final resting place of George Washington in the tomb below.

Buchanan accompanied the Prince to Mount Vernon, to pay his respects at the tomb of George Washington.

* Alexander Dallas Bache Monument – Bache's tomb in the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, DC.

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.

His granddaughter Anne married Bushrod Washington and is interred at the Washingtons ' tomb on the grounds.

The old tomb is located along the river, while the new tomb, containing George and Martha Washington, is located near the fruit garden with the slave burial ground just off this path.

* Norman Prince tomb, Washington National Cathedral, Washington, D. C.

File: Bartlett-grave. jpg | Washington Bartlett's tomb at Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, California.

The Washington Post in an article of 28 February 2007 quotes Dever as saying, " I just think it's a shame the way this story is being hyped and manipulated " and " all of the names in the tomb are common.

In his portrait sculptures the likenesses were said to have been remarkably successful ; he produced portrait busts of most of the celebrated men of his age, including Louis XIV and Louis XV at Versailles, Colbert ( the kneeling figure of his tomb at Saint-Eustache ), Cardinal Mazarin ( in the church of the Collège des Quatre-Nations ), the Grand Condé ( in the Louvre ), Maria Theresa of Austria, Turenne, Vauban, Cardinals de Bouillon and de Polignac, the duc de Chaulnes ( National Gallery of Art, Washington ); Fénelon, Racine, André Le Nôtre ( church of St-Roch ); Bossuet ( in the Louvre ), the comte d ' Harcourt, William Egon Cardinal Fürstenberg as well as Charles Le Brun ( in the Louvre ).

* The Washington coat of arms is also engraved in stone on the tomb of the first Lawrence Washington ( died 1619 ) in the chancel of Great Brington's parish church of St Mary.

The plaster seal in the Oval Office ceiling ( originally installed in 1934 and at some point changed so the eagle faces to its right ) is also based on this design, and a version is in the floor next to Wilson's tomb in the Washington National Cathedral.

During the Blackest Night event, the Soldier is depicted as one of the Black Lanterns, attacking his tomb in Washington proclaiming " I have a name.

Evalyn Walsh McLean died at 60 of pneumonia, and was buried in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington D. C., in the Walsh family tomb.

Only one other church in the United States contains a presidential tomb, which is Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D. C., where the remains of President Woodrow Wilson are interred.