Statues were placed in the tombs to serve as substitutes for the deceased.

Jesus also maintained that the time would come when the dead would hear the voice of the Son of God, and all who were in the tombs would come out, the faithful to the resurrection of life, and the unfaithful to the resurrection of judgment.

According to the Gospel of Matthew, at the death of Jesus tombs were opened, and at his resurrection many saints who had died emerged from their tombs and went into " the holy city ", presumably New Jerusalem.

The pagan emperors ' tombs of the Mausoleum of Augustus and Castel Sant ' Angelo were rifled and the ashes scattered.

Although works of precious gems and metals usually do not survive the ravages of time, some fine pieces of Assyrian jewelry were found in royal tombs at Nimrud.

* Excavated tombs ; Of either the pit, chamber or the tholos kind, in which the dead were laid, together with various objects of use and luxury, without cremation, and in either coffins or loculi or simple wrappings.

Meanwhile, in 1868, tombs at Ialysus in Rhodes had yielded to Alfred Biliotti many fine painted vases of styles which were called later the third and fourth " Mycenaean "; but these, bought by John Ruskin, and presented to the British Museum, excited less attention than they deserved, being supposed to be of some local Asiatic fabric of uncertain date.

Their names were inserted in the diptychs, the lists of saints explicitly venerated in the liturgy, and their tombs were honoured like those of the martyrs.

The discovery of the kokhim tombs just beyond the west end of the Church, and more recent archaeological investigation of the rotunda floor, suggest that a narrow spur of at least ten yards length would have had to jut out from the rock face if the contents of the Aedicule were once inside it.

The archaeological record indicates that the instructions reported by Akiba, for choosing a burial location, were rigidly adhered to ; almost all of the tombs from classical Jerusalem are to the east of the city, on the Mount of Olives, except for a few located over a kilometre to the west, and those in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

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.

Monumental collective tombs were built to house the dead in the form of chambered cairns and long barrows, and towards the end of the period other kinds of monumental stone alignments begin to appear, such as Stonehenge, their cosmic alignments betraying a preoccupation with the sky and planets.

The origin of the harp goes back to Mesopotamia, The earliest harps and lyres were found in Sumer c, 3500 BCE Several harps were found in burial pits and royal tombs in Ur.

Before Djoser, pharaohs were buried in mastaba tombs.

Ibn Taymiyya argued against the shirking of Sharia law, and against practices such as the celebration of Muhammad's birthday or the construction of mosques around the tombs of Sufi sheikhs, believing that these were unacceptable borrowings from Christianity: Many Muslims ' do not even know of the Christian origins of these practices.

The rock-cut tombs of a Herodian and Hasmonean era cemetery lie in the lowest part of the cliffs between Nuseib al-Aweishireh and Jebel Quruntul in Jericho and were used between 100 BCE and 68 CE.

During the construction of Kerameikos station for the expanded Athens Metro, a plague pit and approximately 1, 000 tombs from the 4th and 5th centuries BC were discovered.

It is an expression of genius within a group of people whose other tombs were claustrophobic chambers in smaller mounds.

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.

This practice, still in force at the end of the fourth century, dates apparently from the period when the great cemeterial basilicas were built in Rome, and owes its origin to the solemn commemoration services of martyrs, held at their tombs on the anniversary of their burial, as early as the third century.

He had noticed that the tombs were being plundered surreptitiously.

After those tombs were completely plundered, the inhabitants began to scatter to the countryside and to establish themselves as farmers, and the population of the city decreased.

* On returning to Susa, Persia, Alexander the Great punishes those who he considers to have failed in their duties in his absence in India, particularly those who have plundered tombs and temples.

All of the pyramid tombs of Nubia were plundered in ancient times, but wall reliefs preserved in the tomb chapels reveal that their royal occupants were mummified, covered with jewellery and laid to rest in wooden mummy cases.

In the course of this war, deserters and mutineers among the various encamped armies ravaged the Chilterns, plundered Ashridge, rifled Little Gaddesden Church and broke open its tombs.

Testifying to this wealth are the so-called royal tombs of Salamis, which, although plundered, produced a truly royal abundance of wealth.

The historian Nicetas Choniates records that the Crusaders plundered the imperial tombs and robbed them of gold and gems.

In the 1939-1940 Egypt excavation season, he discovered the completely intact tombs of 3 Egyptian pharaohs at Tanis: Psusennes I, Amenemope, and Shoshenq II along with the partially plundered tomb of Takelot I in Lower Egypt at Tanis.

The settlers introduced chambered cairn tombs from around 3500 BC ( Maeshowe offers a prime example ), and from about 3000 BC the many standing stones and circles such as the Ring of Brodgar on Orkney and Callanish on Lewis.

The complex including Maeshowe, the Ring of Brodgar, the Standing Stones of Stenness, Skara Brae, as well as other tombs and standing stones represents a concentration of Neolithic sites that is rivalled in Britain only by the complexes associated with Stonehenge and Avebury.

These tombs, which date to the Early Dynastic IIIa period ( approximately in the 25th or 24th century BC ), contained immense amounts of luxury items made out of precious metals, and semi-precious stones all of which would have had to been imported from long distances ( Iran, Afghanistan, India, Asia Minor, the Persian Gulf ).

* Megalithic tombs ( including Chamber tombs ) – prehistoric places of interment, often for large communities, constructed of large stones and originally covered with an earthen mound

There are many megalithic tombs and ogham stones in the county.

Within there are the two circle-henges, four chambered tombs, groups of standing stones, single stones, barrows, cairns, and mounds.

There was a Neolithic civilisation in the Clare area — the name of the peoples is unknown, but the Prehistoric peoples left evidence behind in the form of ancient dolmen ; single-chamber megalithic tombs, usually consisting of three or more upright stones.

The tombs are Scythian-type kurgans, barrow-like tomb mounds containing wooden chambers covered over by large cairns of boulders and stones, dated to between the 6th and 3rd centuries BCE.

All over Rügen there are numerous stone monuments, such as megalithic tombs and altar stones that have survived to the present day.

A beehive tomb, also known as a tholos tomb ( plural tholoi ) ( Greek: θόλος τάφοι, θόλοι τάφοι, " domed tombs "), is a burial structure characterized by its false dome created by the superposition of successively smaller rings of mudbricks or, more often, stones.

The earliest stone-built tombs which can be called " beehive " are in Oman, built of stacked flat stones which occur in nearby geological formations.

Knowledge of the game has increased in recent years with archeological discoveries of Liubo game boards and game equipment in ancient tombs, as well as discoveries of Han Dynasty picture stones and picture bricks depicting Liubo players.

Engraved picture stones ( 畫像石 ) and moulded picture bricks ( 畫像磚 ) that were widely used to decorate tombs and temples during the Eastern Han period ( 25 – 220 CE ) also frequently depict people playing Liubo, sometimes as a small part of a complex scene depicting many different activities, but sometimes as the focal point of the scene, with the players attended by servants and playing in the cool of a pavilion.

Tall al-Sumayriyya contains carved stones, a mosaic floor, tombs, columns, and stone capitals.

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

Megalithic tombs are aboveground burial chambers, built of large stone slabs ( megaliths ) laid on edge and covered with earth or other, smaller stones.

The ritual significance of the tombs is supported by the presence of megalithic art carved into the stones at some sites.

Goindol, the Dolmen tombs in Korea and Manchuria, formed of upright stones supporting a horizontal slab, are more numerous in Korea than in other parts of East Asia.

And immediately the face of the door of the temple was rent into two parts from top to bottom ; and the earth was shaken ; and the stones were split to pieces ; and the tombs were opened ; Diatessaron 52, 2

It has a large vault with ogival vault, comprising 4 tumulary stones ( tombs ), which have been classified historic buildings since February 1915.

The term also describes the groups of three stones in the Hunebed tombs of the Netherlands and the three massive stones forming part of the wall of the Roman Temple of Jupiter at Baalbek, Lebanon.