Others believe the urns were used as distilling vessels during the early stages of funeral rites.
The urns were found at the entrance to a late Iron Age defended settlement.
Work is being done to discover whether the remains inside the cremation urns belong to adults or children.
These include everything from Olmec masks to Mayan urns to Native American textiles.
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Two stone urns flanked the front steps, leading up to a wide porch.
Once the cremations have been removed from the urns, the bones will be cleaned and dried under laboratory conditions.
The Bedouins named the building the Treasury because they believed that urns sculpted on top of it contained great treasures.
Using the CT images to guide them, the conservators have detailed the contents of the urns and made the finds stable.
Sitting on a shelf above the bar are barrel-shaped urns of the drink in an array of colours, like sweets in a candy shop.
Georgians traditionally serve wine in bowls made of clay -- much like the buried, clay kvevri urns in which Georgian wine is traditionally made.
Both pots - known as collared urns - could be up to 4, 000 years old and were typically used in early Bronze age cremation burials.
In recent years it has adopted a new strategy, cutting prices for caskets and urns but concentrating on selling bundles of services, says David Hass, a managing director.
Ask him about his guitar stands and, eek, funeral urns.
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In reality, the urns represented a memorial for Nabataean royalty.
The works, which include sculptures and bracelets, frescoes and funerary urns, hail from collections as esteemed as the Louvre in Paris, Kunsthistorisches in Vienna, and British Museum in London.
Finally, housed in ancient, arched basement tunnels, is the Museo Archeologico containing a vast collection of pieces found near Siena, including elaborate Etruscan alabaster funerary urns and gold Roman coins.
Each is accented with Persian carpets, glass-beaded chandeliers, and Jacuzzis equipped with urns full of bath salts from the Dead Sea, as well as a welcome pitcher of lemonade sweetened with rose water.
And the Vatican showed off the urns into which the cardinals will place their ballots, the same silver and bronze flying-saucer-like urns used in the 2005 conclave that elected Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger pope.
St Albans, known as Verulamium, was a key site in the Roman period and as such, these cremation urns, along with the other archaeology on the site, are seen to be nationally important.
Due to their size and the nearby bones, some archaeologists think the urns were prehistoric burial sites for an ancient civilisation that travelled along a forgotten overland trade route between the Mekong River and the Gulf of Tonkin.
Even as senators, deputies and regional electors put their folded paper ballots into urns in the Chamber of Deputies, leaders ranging from Monti to ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi, were paying calls on Napolitano at the presidential palace to beg him to consider serving again.
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