Sumptuous friezes and inscriptions cursing anyone tampering the grave decorate many sarcophagi found in the outgrowth.

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Their kingdom was the Tekke Peninsula, where cliff tombs and sarcophagi still litter the hills above the Mediterranean.

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The first exhibits are sarcophagi decorated with mounted Roman soldiers trampling half-naked Barbarians.

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In 2007, following 40 years of digging, archaeologist Ehud Netzer unearthed the foundations of an elaborate mausoleum, and then the fragments of three sarcophagi.

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