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 ).

These people buried their leaders in large tumuli containing shaft graves, similar to the Mycenaean tombs, indicating an ancestral link between Epirus and the Mycenaean civilization.

These tombs were commonly adorned with uniquely decorated hollow clay tiles that function also as a door jamb to the tomb.

These relics include the distinctive rock-cut tombs in the sides of cliffs.

These are large, elaborate tombs of finely-cut stone, such as could only have been built by the highest-ranking members of a wealthy society.

These cadaver tombs, with their demanding sculptural program, were made only for high-ranking nobles, usually royalty or bishops or abbots, because one had to be rich to afford to have one made, and powerful enough to be allotted space for one in a church.

These rituals included that the persons suffering from nightmares should sleep next to the tombs of heroes.

These finds were preserved when water seeped into the tombs in antiquity and froze, encasing the burial goods in ice, which remained frozen in the permafrost until the time of their excavation.

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These tombs are particularly numerous in Ireland, where there are many thousand still in existence.

These monuments include both megalithic tombs, temples and structures of unknown ( possibly religious or astronomical ) purpose.

These tombs reached their present state as a result of the 19th century restoration of imperial sepulchers ( misasagi ) which were ordered by Emperor Meiji.

These early cultures built " beehive " tombs for their dead and engaged in hunting and gathering in the area.

These tombs either had a lone chamber for a single individual, or a passage lined with entrances to a number of tombs.

These included the tombs of Giovanni, Barnabò and Filippo Maria Visconti, Francesco I and his wife Bianca, Galeazzo Maria and Lodovico Sforza, which were brought to unknown destinations.

These tombs reached their present state as a result of the 19th century restoration of imperial sepulchers ( misasagi ) which were ordered by Emperor Meiji.

These tombs usually have one single grave room.

These warrior princes maintained a close relationship with the kings of the Heracleopolitan royal household, as evidenced by the inscriptions in their tombs.

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

These tombs have stairs that descend from the patio area and have a cross layout.

These activities are typically conducted at the site of ancestral graves or tombs, at an ancestral temple, or at a household shrine.

These, together with royal-sized tombs, proved beyond a doubt for the first time the existence of the Shang Dynasty, which had recently been doubted, and the location of its last capital, Yin.

These tombs, containing Scythian artistic and armament metallurgy ( e. g. acinaces ), have moreover been dated to 550-450 BC — roughly the timeframe of Herodotus ' writing.

These letters became the center of my existence.

These became `` strays '', the term bein' restricted to cattle, however, as hosses, under like circumstances, were spoken of as `` stray hosses '', not merely `` strays ''.

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These became known as Syro-Hittite states.

These latter two became the determining forces of Chinese thought until the introduction of Buddhism.

These authors, the former a medieval historian and the latter an early modernist, quickly became associated with the distinctive Annales approach, which combined geography, history, and the sociological approaches of the Année Sociologique ( many members of which were their colleagues at Strasbourg ) to produce an approach which rejected the predominant emphasis on politics, diplomacy and war of many 19th and early 20th-century historians as spearheaded by historians whom Febvre called Les Sorbonnistes.

These soon became so serious that a league was formed to crush him, and Maurice of Saxony led an army against his former comrade.

These were all defeated, by an opposition that included a fellow Tennessean, Isham G. Harris, who later became a bitter enemy.

These formations became exposed when the ocean floor was raised by a major volcanic activity in the Devonian forming much of the east coast of Australia.

These illuminations were applied to other works besides the Quran, and it became a respected art form in and of itself.

These became established in the 19th century, but the origin of these breeds is uncertain, and a matter of some speculation.

These early print advertisements were used mainly to promote books and newspapers, which became increasingly affordable with advances in the printing press ; and medicines, which were increasingly sought after as disease ravaged Europe.

These became known as the Negro Leagues, though these leagues never had any formal overall structure comparable to the Major Leagues.

These abbreviated volumes soon became very popular and eventually supplanted the Roman Catholic Church's Curia office, previously said by non-monastic clergy.

These soviets became the model for those formed in 1917.

These later annexed territories include Eastern Poland ( incorporated into two different SSRs ), Latvia ( became Latvia SSR ), Estonia ( became Estonian SSR ), Lithuania ( became Lithuania SSR ), part of eastern Finland ( became part of the Karelo-Finnish SSR ) and northern Romania ( became the Moldavian SSR ).

These first settlements were abandoned after attacks by Spanish privateers, but English privateers often used the Cayman Islands as a base and in the 18th century they became an increasingly popular hideout for pirates, even after the end of legitimate privateering in 1713.

These latter two became the determining forces of Chinese thought until the introduction of Buddhism.

These efforts spread Confucian ideals to students who then became officials in many of the royal courts in China, thereby giving Confucianism the first wide-scale test of its dogma.

These portable devices first became popular with the wearable computer movement in the 1980s.

These had been rectangular, they now became “ ram ’ s horn ” shaped, thus not blocking the instrument panel as much.