The fabulous tombs of the Recoleta Cemetery stand as vainglorious monuments, in death, to earthly success and ambition.
BBC: The Recoleta Cemetery: Silent theatre and city of the dead
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.
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.
Besides having enormous military and political importance, the Via Appia Antica was also the road of tombs.
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.
CNN: Official: Egypt balloon explosion probe can take 2 weeks
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.
"Cemeteries are for the living, " Burks said about her visits to celebrity tombs.
CNN: Jackson could rest with the stars if buried at Forest Lawn Memorial
Militants from the Ansar Dine group, which controls much of northern Mali, have started to destroy Timbuktu's ancient tombs.
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.
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.
BBC: The Recoleta Cemetery: Silent theatre and city of the dead
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.
In 1757, Antonio Canova, Italian neo-classical sculptor whose works include the tombs of Pope Clement XIV and Clement XIII, was born.
Antiquities Minister Muhammad Ibrahim reopened the Pyramid of Chefren (Khafre) and six ancient tombs at Giza after a long restoration project.
The fabled city includes ancient tombs and wooden structures dating to the 15th century, a major part of its cultural heritage.
Thursday's attack was at least the fourth this year on Timbukto's historic tombs, said Osmane Halle, the former mayor of Timbuktu.
This would also explain the scaled-down tombs and the lack, so far, of any sign that the Jin tried to preserve corpses.
Crying widows, fashioned from stone, suckle infants on the steps of tombs.
BBC: The Recoleta Cemetery: Silent theatre and city of the dead
Ascending further into the hills, we come across what must be one of the last tombs still used as a Bedouin family home.
In the Skyrim game, players can slay dragons or plunder tombs, but also get married or do tasks like chop firewood or cook.
应用推荐