The fabulous tombs of the Recoleta Cemetery stand as vainglorious monuments, in death, to earthly success and ambition.
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Most of them appeared to be statues of servant figures often found in tombs.
While the pharaohs were building pyramids, their courtiers were creating elaborate tombs for themselves.
Around two million tombs have been razed since the campaign was launched last March.
Some of the tombs where the spider was discovered date back to the 1830s.
The tombs, many with beautiful wall paintings, are almost the only remains of this culture.
The militants have attacked Timbuktu's historic tombs and shrines, claiming the relics are idolatrous.
Besides having enormous military and political importance, the Via Appia Antica was also the road of tombs.
Islamic militants have gone on a rampage, destroying sacred tombs in Timbuktu and vowing to destroy more.
Earlier this year it began smashing ancient tombs in Timbuktu on the ground that they were idolatrous.
Their kingdom was the Tekke Peninsula, where cliff tombs and sarcophagi still litter the hills above the Mediterranean.
Visitors go to see ancient temples and tombs, and travel sites often recommend the hot air balloon trips.
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During the session, armed groups stepped up their attacks on the World Heritage site and destroyed sacred tombs.
The United States and a number of other nations have condemned previous attacks on Mali's historic tombs.
The tombs, a 15th century shrine to Muslim saints, are part of a World Heritage site in Timbuktu.
By blasting huge holes in the sides of ancient monuments, he hoped to find tombs filled with gold.
"Cemeteries are for the living, " Burks said about her visits to celebrity tombs.
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Militants from the Ansar Dine group, which controls much of northern Mali, have started to destroy Timbuktu's ancient tombs.
Does she ever wonder whether raiding tombs to recover priceless treasures of lost antiquity is worth the body count?
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Two concrete communal tombs were being constructed in Iligan, said Teresita Badiang, an engineer at the Iligan mayor's office.
Also inside this church are the tombs of Michelangelo, Galileo and Machiavelli.
The most interesting places to find are a series of optional tombs that give loads of treasure if fully explored.
"We think the effect will be minuscule, and will come out in the wash in the end, " Mr. Tombs says.
Almost all of the 100 or so tombs unearthed to date are single chambers, often small, always made of brick.
They banned music, smoking, drinking and watching sports on television, and they destroyed historic tombs and shrines in the region.
Only about 90 out of more than 10, 000 Koguryo tombs discovered in China and Korea so far, have wall paintings.
Downstairs in the Vatican grottoes are the papal tombs, among them the simple marble slab that Pope John Paul II now calls home.
There are more than 6, 400 tombs in this city of the dead, densely packed against one another along narrow alleyways and leafy avenues.
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Claustrophobics may want to steer clear of the lower dining levels at Antica Osteria da Divo, which are housed in Etruscan tombs.
One of his teams is surveying a vast honeycomb of Graeco-Roman tombs that was accidentally exposed by a road-building crew.
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