The sarcophagus was found so splintered that it must have been deliberately shattered, co-curator David Mevorah said.
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Asked whether Alexander's sarcophagus would be returned to Lebanon, Mr Gunay and his interpreter simply ignore the question.
It's got history (two balls and a jack were found in the sarcophagus of an ancient Egyptian prince).
In 2008, he was convicted by a court in the western province of Gansu, where the sarcophagus was from.
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He was arrested at Beijing airport in 2006 and later convicted of illegally exporting an ancient sarcophagus, media reports say.
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Gilda was carried off in a sarcophagus when she was kidnapped, then died in the trunk of a Cadillac Coupe Deville.
Another suggestion is to bury the wreck in a concrete sarcophagus - the method used to seal the Chernobyl nuclear power station.
Finding an Egyptian sarcophagus in Cuba was one of his strangest discoveries.
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The body was reconstructed and returned to its original sarcophagus in 1926, only being removed for X-ray testing three times in subsequent years.
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After the 1986 Chernobyl accident, the world's worst to date, the Soviet Union encased the plant's damaged reactor in a massive concrete sarcophagus.
On Friday, tens of thousands of people turned out to watch as his golden sarcophagus was paraded through the streets of Phnom Penh to the crematorium.
If it were to be sent back to Turkey, it would be reunited with the sarcophagus and put on display in the Istanbul Archaeology Museum, said Tuyluoglu.
The air surrounding the sarcophagus, shining with the blue fire of the mosaics, which once contained the embalmed body of the Empress, is a worthy dream of an ardently religious imagination.
You enter it by a stairway reminiscent of pre-Roman burial sites, pass through a narrow corridor and enter an imposing square burial chamber with a pink marble granite sarcophagus in the centre.
Entering the exhibition's final room, visitors pass through the amphitheater's seven pillars and reach the mausoleum's partially reconstructed ring of massive, decorated stones resting on pillars, within which lies the restored sarcophagus.
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The sarcophagus, along with a Roman tile kiln, Saxon grave goods and pottery unearthed at the site, sheds light on a "hidden" two hundred year period in the history of the capital, the museum said.
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Louis's staff is ornamented with miniature putti, or spiritelli, the Renaissance "spirits" based on ancient Roman cupids among the many on view are marble versions, a whole flock at play on a 2nd-century child's sarcophagus and one gleefully ready for mid-15th-century fountain duty.
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