When an unknown life form called Tear materializes in Delphys ( a pit that seems to have no dimensions and that surrounds the tomb of Gilgamesh ) and begins to contaminate embryos that surround it, the scientists stop all of the experiments.

Gilgamesh are named after the lot number they were in the tomb of Gilgamesh.

At the beginning of the Hippodrome I saw the Kaiser's Fountain, an ugly octagonal building with a glass dome, built in 1895 by the German Emperor, and on my left, directly across from it, the tomb of Sultan Ahmet, who constructed the Blue Mosque, more properly known by his name.

A small, rock-carved angel watched her from a nearby tomb, the only angel in the cemetery.

We went into Mrs. Monmouth's library, which had low bookshelves all along the walls, and above them a Modigliani portrait, a Jackson Pollock twelve feet long, and a gorgeous Miro with a yellow background, that looked like an inscription from a Martian tomb.

His tomb, according to a medieval Jewish tradition, is considered to be in a building not far from the Cave of the Patriarchs.

The tomb is somberly monotone and lacks the polychromatic excitement that detracts from the elegiac mood of Urban VIII's tomb.

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 ).

Early evidence of their use in Britain includes: an equal hour horary quadrant from 1396, in England, a 1445 inscription on the tower of Heathfield Church, Sussex ; a 1448 inscription on a wooden lych-gate of Bray Church, Berkshire ; and a 1487 inscription on the belfry door at Piddletrenthide church, Dorset ; and in Scotland a 1470 inscription on the tomb of the first Earl of Huntly in Elgin Cathedral.

* c. 400 BC: Two ornately decorated liubo gameboards from a royal tomb of the State of Zhongshan in China.

* c. 200 AD: A stone go board with a 17 × 17 grid from a tomb at Wangdu County in Hebei, China.

A boat in an Egyptian tomb painting from about 1450 BCE

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

According to the New Testament Jesus was crucified, died a physical death, was buried within a tomb, and rose from the dead three days later.

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.

Cardinals had the right to display the galero in their cathedral, and when a cardinal died, it would be suspended from the ceiling above his tomb.

The tomb lies on the line of several cairns that marked the east-west route of the ancient Monks ' Path between Buckfast Abbey and Tavistock Abbey and it was no doubt erected here as part of that route: it would have been particularly useful in this part of the moor with few landmarks where a traveller straying from the path could easily end up in Foxtor Mires.

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 ).

A bas-relief of a soldier and horse with saddle and stirrup s, from the tomb of Chinese Emperor Taizong of Tang ( r. 626-649 ), c. 650

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.

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.

The burial chamber is normally located at one end of a rectangular or trapezoidal cairn, while a roofless, semi-circular forecourt at the entrance provided access from the outside ( although the entrance itself was often blocked ), and gives this type of chambered cairn its alternate name of court tomb or court cairn.

This outcrop contains the tomb of Sidi Abderrhamane Thaalibi, a Sufi from Baghdad and the founder of Algiers.

File: Kazimierz III sarcophagus figure. jpg | Effigy of Casimir from his own tomb erected by his nephew around 1371

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.

* Carnarvon, Fiona ; Carnarvon & Carter — The story of the two Englishmen who discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun.

The soldiers guarding the tomb are terrified by the angel, and inform the chief priests ; the priests and elders bribe them to spread a lie that the disciples have stolen the body, " nd this story has been widely circulated among the Jews to this very day.

The monument site contains his tomb, two statues of him in athletic poses, and historical markers describing his life story.

In many histories of the Mausoleum one can find the following story of what happened: The party, deciding it was too late to open it that day, returned the next morning to find the tomb, and any treasure it may have contained, plundered.

In another telling of the story, the bodies of Cadmus and his wife were changed after their deaths ; the serpents watched their tomb while their souls were translated to the fields.

The love story of Rhadine made her supposed tomb on the island of Samos a pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers in the time of Pausanias and Erato was linked again with love in Plato's Phaedrus ; nevertheless, even in the third century BCE, when Apollonius wrote, the Muses were not yet as inextricably linked to specific types of poetry as they became.

Births are also recorded in such shrines, and the Greek legend of conception and birth in the tomb – as in the story of Danae-is based on the ancient belief that the dead know the future.

Saunders, Tracy, Pilgrimage to Heresy ( iUniverse, 2007 )-in Spanish: Peregrinos de la Herejía ( Bóveda 2009 )-offers a fictionalised version of the events in Priscillian's story and furthers the suggestion put forth by Prof. Henry Chadwick that Priscillian may be the occupant in the tomb in Santiago de Compostela

:" Some of the Naxians also have a story of their own, that there were two Minoses and two Ariadnes, one of whom, they say, was married to Dionysos in Naxos and bore him Staphylos and his brother, and the other, of a later time, having been carried off by Theseus and then abandoned by him, came to Naxos, accompanied by a nurse named Korkyne, whose tomb they show ; and that this Ariadne also died there.

The story as reported by Edward Shortland has a degree of similarity to the New Testament episode where Jesus rose after three days and three nights in the tomb ; Christian influence may have played a role in the plot of this tale.

His visit to Murad's tomb in Kosovo Polje provides the occasion for the story of the knight whom he names Miloš Kobilović.

" The dark and romantic story by Baudelaire that HIM is referring to is most likely " Flowers of Evil " because the song also says, " Pretty, like a flower on a tomb.

As the story is told, this tablet was found by Alexander the Great at Hebron supposedly in the tomb of Hermes.

* Fiona Carnarvon, Carnarvon & Carter-the story of the two Englishman who discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun, Highclere Enterprises LPP, 2007.

In one Talmudic story, Joseph was buried in the Nile river, as there was some dispute as to which province should be honored by having his tomb within its boundaries.

He died about 1230, and was buried at Würzburg, after leaving instructions — according to the story — that the birds were to be fed at his tomb daily.

The prevailing theory of Markan priority would suggest that the original story had a mysterious man in white in the tomb.

Inspired by the opening of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 and the Curse of the Pharaohs, producer Carl Laemmle Jr. commissioned story editor Richard Shayer to find a literary novel to form a basis for an Egyptian-themed horror film, just as Dracula and Frankenstein informed their previous hits.

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.

The band's name is drawn from a phrase in Lovecraft's story The Tomb: " I will tell only of the lone tomb in the darkest of the hillside thickets.

As they wait to die in the tomb Farah tells the Prince, who similarly reveals his claustrophobia, a story she had never told anyone before, about a time when she was little, when her mother told her about a secret magic word which would help her escape anything that scared her: " Kakolookiyam ".

Unbeknownst to him, he was playing a part in a higher story line: the tomb eagerly awaited for the arrival of his companion who dies immediately.

One version of this story supposes that a gardener named Judas was worried that the crowds coming to see Jesus would trample his cabbages and he thus moved Jesus ' body to another tomb.

Also commemorated is the Passover of the Law, which according to the Gospel of John, was on the Sabbath when Christ lay in the tomb, and among the Old Testament readings is the story of the Exodus out of Egypt, that reading ending with the antiphonal singing of the Song of Moses ().