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

These tombs became models which for many years were copied by most later sculptors with increasing exaggerations of their defects.

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 lectures formed the nucleus of a general survey of English development which took form afterward as A History Of England.

These chatty merchants made amusing and instructive traveling companions, for their business took them to all four corners of the globe, and Florentine gossip had already reached a high stage of development as even a cursory glance at the Inferno will prove.

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These early Japanese lamellar armours took the form of a sleeveless jacket and a helmet.

These reforms took place in 622 BC.

These churches at first used and then revised the use of the Prayer Book, until they, like their parent, produced prayer books which took into account the developments in liturgical study and practice in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which come under the general heading of the Liturgical Movement.

These regiments, which rarely took the field as complete organizations, served throughout the American Indian Wars through the close of the frontier in the 1890s.

These difficulties took an emotional and physical strain on the Pei family.

These were grouped into corps that took their name from the military kraals where they were mustered, or sometimes the dominant regiment of that locality.

These features are believed to be innovations that took place in Proto-Germanic, a descendant of Proto-Indo-European that was the source of all Germanic languages.

These show that he took part in all the great controversies on predestination and Arminianism which then so agitated and harassed all Europe.

These were followed by Gregory Benford's The Martian Race ( 1999 ), Geoffrey A. Landis's Mars Crossing ( 2000 ), and Robert Zubrin's First Landing ( 2002 ), which took as their starting points the smaller and more focussed expedition strategies evolved in the late 1990s, mostly building on the concepts of Mars Direct.

These militias took part in the many Portuguese campaigns against the Lankan Kings.

These executions took place in over 30 towns and villages in the first month of German occupation alone.

These included an attempted overthrow of King in January 1789 by convicts described by Margaret Hazzard as " incorrigible rogues who took his ' goodwill ' for weakness ".

These two songs were written in the weeks before Curtis took his own life.

These footraces took the form of relays in which teams of runners passed off a flaming torch.

These early investigations did not lead to the use of antibiotics to treat infection because they took place in obscure circumstances, and the idea that infections were caused by transmissible agents was not widely accepted at the time.

These trials continue to be cited by some sources as the first cures using penicillin, though the Paine trials took place earlier.

These trends faltered in the 1980s as the government took a more active part in industry, deficits rose, and the national currency was generally overvalued and devalued numerous times.

These notions later took shape in the theory of wahdat ul-wujud ( the Unity of All Things ).

These developments — re-evaluation of the entire Western value system ( love, marriage, popular culture, shift from industrial to service economy ) that took place since the 1950s and 1960s, with a peak in the Social Revolution of 1968 — are described with the term Postmodernity, Influences on postmodern thought, Paul Lützeler ( St. Louis ) as opposed to Postmodernism, a term referring to an opinion or movement.

These are called isabelline penguins, possibly in reference to the legend that the archduchess Isabella of Austria vowed not to change her undergarments until her husband's siege of Ostend was successful — which took over three years to accomplish.

These new PowerBooks took design cues from the 500 series PowerBook, sporting dramatic curves and a jet-black plastic case.

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