A chambered cairn is a burial monument, usually constructed during the Neolithic, consisting of a cairn of stones inside which a sizeable ( usually stone ) chamber was constructed.

The original burial monument sculptures are displayed within the museum, having been replaced by plaster replicas in situ.

As this funerary monument was erected before the traditional date given for the death of King Midas in the early 7th century BC, it is now generally thought to have covered the burial of his father.

The altar is also across from Innocent XI's monument, which was his original site of burial before his beatification.

The Züschen tomb ( German: Steinkammergrab von Züschen, sometimes also Lohne-Züschen ) is a prehistoric burial monument, located between Lohne and Züschen, near Fritzlar, Hesse, Germany.

* Henry III ( 1551 – 1589 ), also King of Poland ( heart burial monument )

He suggested ( together with the French in their own country ) the creation at a national level of a symbolic funeral and burial of an " Unknown Warrior ", proposing that the grave should in Britain include a national monument in the form of what is usually, but not in this particular case, a headstone.

The funerary cult surrounding this monument, well known in the New Kingdom, was still functioning several generations after its establishment at the temple, leading some scholars to suggest that it may have contained the royal burial chamber of the pharaoh himself.

The earliest ancient monument is a Bronze Age ring ditch and possible burial pit.

A bluff top monument overlooks the village, indicating the burial of riverboat Captain Swarnes who wished to be buried upright to command a panoramic view of the river.

Another sort of unmarked grave is a burial site with an anonymous marker, such as a simple cross ; boots, rifle and helmet ; a sword and shield ; a cairn of stones ; or even a monument.

A mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the interment space or burial chamber of a deceased person or persons.

When the names were transcribed from the records onto the monument, there was an error in deciphering the flowing hand in which many of the original burial dockets were written.

The monument has its original entrance at the northern side and contains three chambers: at the top, the burial chamber of the king ( king's chamber ), in the middle, the statue chamber ( erroneously called queen's chamber ), and an unfinished subterranean chamber ( underworld chamber ) under the foundation of the pyramid.

The monument to Gen. Poor, just a few feet from his burial site in Hackensack, New Jersey | Hackensack.

His burial spot was originally marked by a magnificent marble monument, topped by an " Angel of Music " statue, which disappeared some time during the mid-20th century.

A monument was later built at her burial site by the City of Carolina.

These cultural centers typically contain a burial mound and a geometric earthwork complex that covers ten to hundreds of acres and sparse settlements ; evidence of large resident populations is lacking at the monument complexes.

He left a plaque on the granite monument marking the burial place of Jackson's arm ; the plaque is no longer on the marker but can be viewed at the Chancellorsville Battlefield visitor's center.

Nałecz coat of arms of Stanisław Slawieński in his burial monument inside Gniezno Cathedral ( circa 1661 )

A monument to the incident is located on Doneraile Walk and an Obelisk marks a burial plot at the Church of Ireland on Church Road.

Here, among the debris of broken pottery and shattered stone vessels from the burial chamber and lower passages were the remnants of two vases made for Queen Ahmose Nefertari which formed part of the original funerary equipment of Thutmose I ; one of the vases contained a secondary inscription which states that Thutmose II " it as his monument to his father.

* Panorama of the West Bay on Vatersay ( Annie Jane burial cairn and monument ) ( QuickTime required )

Ale's Stones, a stone ship ( burial monument ) from c. 500 AD on the coast at Kåseberga, around ten kilometres south east of Ystad in southern Scania.

This is an animal sacrifice, which was a burial custom during the era in which the poem takes place.

The burial rites of the Italian Boii show many similarities with contemporary Bohemia, such as inhumation, which was uncommon with the other Cisalpine Gauls, or the absence of the typically western Celtic torcs.

" The Protestation of Guiltlessness ," from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, is a collection of assertions of innocence which were included in ancient Egyptian burial rites, and is often compared to Job, especially chapter 31.

According to Tacitus in his Annals, Boudica poisoned herself, though in the Agricola which was written almost twenty years prior he mentions nothing of suicide and attributes the end of the revolt to socordia (" indolence "); Dio says she fell sick and died and then was given a lavish burial ; though this may be a convenient way to remove her from the story.

He also saw one of the Fair's most publicized events, the burial of a time capsule at Flushing Meadows, which contained mementos of the 1930s to be recovered by Earth's descendants in a future millennium.

On 17 January 2011, police in Nemi, Italy, announced that they believed they had discovered the site of Caligula's burial, after arresting a thief caught smuggling a statue which they believed to be of the emperor.

Also, the burial and Resurrection which occurred three days later proving the divinity of Jesus Christ and the loving nature of the Father.

Constantine's church was built as two connected churches over the two different holy sites, including a great basilica ( the Martyrium visited by Egeria in the 380s ), an enclosed colonnaded atrium ( the Triportico ) with the traditional site of Golgotha in one corner, and a rotunda, called the Anastasis (" Resurrection "), which contained the remains of a rock-cut room that Helena and Macarius identified as the burial site of Jesus.

Just inside the entrance is The Stone of Anointing, also known as The Stone of Unction, which tradition claims to be the spot where Jesus ' body was prepared for burial by Joseph of Arimathea.

One might note, however, that what is assumed to be a niche for the Torah scroll in the building probably originally built as a Judeo-Christian synagogue between AD 70 and AD 135 on the traditional site of the Cenacle or upper room of the Last Supper and now identified as the site of the King David's Tomb is oriented not towards the Temple Mount, but towards the site of the Holy Sepulchre, which would seem to indicate that the Christian community that had built it had already began to transfer many of the religious traditions originally associated with the Temple to the sites they associated with Christ's death and resurrection ( such as the burial place of Adam and the centre of the world ).

In France, Claude François who re-invented himself as the king of French disco, released " La plus belle chose du monde ", a French version of the Bee Gees hit record, " Massachusetts ", which became a big hit in Canada and Europe and " Alexandrie Alexandra " was posthumously released on the day of his burial and became a worldwide hit.

It contains the Dutch royal family's burial vault, which between funerals is sealed with a 5000 kg cover stone.

This was a burial ground for several centuries for a noble tribal dynasty known as Adi Cheras, the royal family, which rose as a paramount power in South India in the first century.

Gladiators could subscribe to a union ( collegia ) which ensured proper burial, with compensation for wives and children.

Neither should it be confused with the surviving Acts of Barnabas, which narrates an account of Barnabas ' travels, martyrdom and burial, and which is generally thought to have been written in Cyprus sometime after 431.

He wrote of meeting the Chumash people, and of his exploration of a small island on the Alaskan coast on which an important burial site was marked by a sepulchre of " peculiar character " lined with boards and fragments of military instruments lying near a square box covered with mats.

The pomegranate, an ancient emblem of the Great Goddess, remained an emblem of Hera: many of the votive pomegranates and poppy capsules recovered at Samos are made of ivory, which survived burial better than the wooden ones that must have been more common.

This and Ophelia's burial ceremony, which is characteristically Catholic, make up most of the play's Catholic connections.

His driving force was to obtain the ability to locate Mecca from any given geographical point – aiding in Muslim rituals such as burial and prayer, which require participants to face the holy city, as well as making the pilgrimage to Mecca ( known as the hajj ).

The Greeks and Romans introduced burial insurance circa 600 AD when they organized guilds called " benevolent societies " which cared for the surviving families and paid funeral expenses of members upon death.

Jewish males are buried in a tallit and sometimes also a kittel which are part of the tachrichim ( burial garments ).

After Jersey became an island, there is evidence of settled communities in the Neolithic period, which is marked by the building of the ritual burial sites known as dolmens.