The main part of the Giza complex is a setting of buildings that included two mortuary temples in honor of Khufu ( one close to the pyramid and one near the Nile ), three smaller pyramids for Khufu's wives, an even smaller " satellite " pyramid, a raised causeway connecting the two temples, and small mastaba tombs surrounding the pyramid for nobles.

However, as authors Briar and Hobbs claim, " all the pyramids were robbed " by the New Kingdom, when the construction of royal tombs in a desert valley, now known as the Valley of the Kings, began.

The last king to build royal pyramids was Ahmose, with later kings hiding their tombs in the hills, like in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor's West Bank.

Nubian pyramids were constructed ( roughly 220 of them ) at three sites in Sudan to serve as tombs for the kings and queens of Napata and Meroë.

An Egyptian influenced pharaonic tradition persisted among a line of rulers at Meroe, who raised stelae to record the achievements of their reigns and erected pyramids to contain their tombs.

Memphis and its necropolis, which include funerary rock tombs, mastabas, temples and pyramids, were inscribed on the World Heritage List of UNESCO in 1979.

Even after pharaohs began to construct pyramids for their tombs in the Third Dynasty, members of the nobility continued to be buried in mastaba tombs.

This is especially evident on the Giza Plateau, where hundreds of mastaba tombs have been constructed alongside the pyramids.

The symbolism of the step pyramid form, which did not survive the 3rd Dynasty, is unknown, but it has been suggested that it may be a monumental symbol of the crown, especially the royal mortuary cult, since seven small step pyramids ( not tombs ) were built in the provinces.

Lubaantun is a drystone constructed site with ruined pyramids and stone tombs.

The Pharaohs called the people who made the tombs and pyramids for them the ummah.

It holds a mix of Indian and European styled graves, with domed tombs, pyramids, walled and plain grave stones.

These tombs took the shape of rock chambers buried in an earthen hill, sometimes likened with the pyramids.

The Great Pyramids, the Great Sphinx of Giza, and the smaller pyramids and tombs of Ancient Egypt are among the Seven Wonders of the World.

The Goguryeo tombs, shaped like pyramids, are famous for the well-preserved wall murals like the ones at Anak Tomb No. 3, which depict the culture and artistry of the people.

Although it was once believed that slaves built these monuments, a theory based on the biblical Exodus story, study of the tombs of the workmen, who oversaw construction on the pyramids, has shown they were built by a corvée of peasants drawn from across Egypt.

The tombs built by the community for their own use include small rock-cut chapels and substructures adorned with small pyramids.

Approximately 220 pyramids were eventually constructed at three sites in Nubia over a period of a few hundred years to serve as tombs for the kings and queens of Napata and Meroë.

Mortuary temples were built around pyramids in the Old and Middle Kingdoms, but once the New Kingdom pharaohs began constructing tombs in the Valley of the Kings, they built their mortuary temples separately.

The pyramids of el-Kurru contain the tombs of Kashta and several of his successors.

To the east of the tumulus tombs we find row of at least eight pyramids.

* The Dream Mile-A bizarre Mayan / Egyptian world complete with pyramids, tombs, scorpions, sand and high winds.

* Pseudoarchaeological: varying theories that deny the pyramids were built to serve exclusively as tombs for the Pharaohs ; alternative explanations regarding the construction of the pyramids ( for example the use of long-lost knowledge ; anti-gravity technology, etc ...); and hypotheses that they were built by someone other than the historical Ancient Egyptians ( e. g. early Hebrews, Atlanteans, or even extra-terrestrials ).

Sardinia has Aegean sites, for example, at Abini near Teti ; and Spain has yielded objects recognized as Aegean from tombs near Cadiz and from Saragossa.

Excavations near the site of a present day church and monastery, have revealed an early church with two empty tombs, believe to be that of St. Barnabas and Anthemios.

For Golb, the amount of documents is too extensive and includes many different writing styles and calligraphies ; the ruins seem to have been a fortress, used as a military base for a very long period of timeincluding the 1st centuryso they could not have been inhabited by the Essenes ; and the large graveyard excavated in 1870, just 50 metres east of the Qumran ruins was made of over 1200 tombs that included many women and childrenPliny clearly wrote that the Essenes that lived near the Dead Sea " had not one woman, had renounced all pleasure ... and no one was born in their race ".

The author of this entry was evidently alluding to the custom of celebrating Mass privately at the altars near or over the tombs of the martyrs in the crypts of the catacombs ( missa ad corpus ), while the solemn celebration always took place in the basilicas built over the catacombs.

A commission eventually chose St. Petersburg, so they ( along with several loyal servants who died with them ) were interred in a special chapel in the Peter and Paul Cathedral near the tombs of their ancestors.

Archaeological work at the Ruins of Yin ( near modern day Anyang ), which has been identified as the last Shang capital, uncovered eleven major Yin royal tombs and the foundations of palaces and ritual sites, containing weapons of war and remains from both animal and human sacrifices.

Entire families camp in cemeteries and sometimes spend a night or two near their relatives ' tombs.

Two major groups of Neolithic architectural traditions are represented in the area: portal dolmens ( e. g. St Lythans burial chamber ( Vale of Glamorgan ), and Cae ' rarfau ( near Creigiau )); and Severn-Cotswold chamber tombs ( e. g. Parc Cwm long cairn, ( Parc le Breos Cwm, Gower Peninsula ), and Tinkinswood burial chamber ( Vale of Glamorgan )), as well as tombs that do not fall easily into either group.

Further south, in Campania, a region where inhumation was the general practice, Proto-villanovan cremation burials have been identified at Capua, at the " princely tombs " of Pontecagnano near Salerno ( finds conserved in the Museum of Agro Picentino ) and at Sala Consilina.

Stanley died at Lathom on 29 July 1504 and was buried in the family chapel in Burscough Priory, near Ormskirk in Lancashire, surrounded by the tombs of his parents and others of his ancestors.

The earlier tombs are within the forest area, near the boundary of the early town.

In the first of these episodes, Alexander's diadem was blown off his head and landed on some reeds near the tombs of Assyrian kings.

Sardinia has Aegean sites ( e. g. at Abini near Teti ) and Spain has yielded objects recognized as Aegean from tombs near Cadiz and from Saragossa.

In ancient Greece the statues had an apotropaic function and were placed at crossings, country borders and boundaries as protection, in front of temples, near to tombs, in the gymnasia, palaestrae, libraries, porticoes, and public places, at the corners of streets, on high roads as sign-posts, with distances inscribed upon them.

Further excavations of the pillared hall and pylon of Rameses II ; the discovery of granite blocks bearing the annals of the reign of Amenemhat II ; excavations of the tombs of high priests of Ptah ; research and major explorations at the necropolis near Saqqara.

He was buried in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, near Paris, where the tombs of him, Bilichild, and his infant son Dagobert were discovered in 1645 ; the contents were pilfered.

On the Chinese soil the institutions became known as menhuan, and are typically headquartered near the tombs ( gongbei ) of their founders.

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

After visiting the tombs of his uncle Yaḥyā and Abū Madyan in ‘ Ubbād near Tlemcen, he stopped at Bijāya ( Bougie ) during Ramaḍān and saw a remarkable dream about the secrets of letters and stars.

At Sparta a cenotaph was erected in his memory near the tombs of Pausanias and Leonidas, and yearly speeches were made and games celebrated in their honor, in which only Spartiates could compete ..