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Giza attraction including the Great Pyramids
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necropolis
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Necropolis is a British Gothic novel by author Basil Copper . It was published by Arkham House in 1980 in an edition of 4,050 copies. It was Copper's third book published by Arkham House.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"large cemetery" of an ancient or modern city, 1803, from Late Latin, literally "city of the dead," from Greek Nekropolis , a burial place near Alexandria, from nekros (see necro- ) + polis "city" (see polis ).
Usage examples of necropolis.
Among the curious who had flocked together were many embalmers, laborers, and humble folk, who lived in the Necropolis.
In addition I wanted to canvass his views on what sort of human society, if any, could have had the technological know-how, such a very long while ago, to measure accurately the altitudes of the stars and to devise a plan as mathematical and ambitious as that of the Giza necropolis.
In the Roman necropolis, along the Kairwan road, several interesting discoveries were made, among them a hypogeum containing several frescoes in fair preservation, containing curious figures and inscriptions, and also some inscriptions on marble or stucco.
Neferhotep had left a plot of ground in trust to the Necropolis, with the charge of administering its revenues for the payment of a minstrel, who every-year at the feast of the dead should sing the monody to the accompaniment of his lute.
As the crowd began to break up, filing back to the necropolis to resume the search for Kelemvor, Gwydion tapped Perdix on the leg.
The screen now showed a crater-field of dead cars, the frazzled heaps pummelled to the sound of tinnitus, a new necropolis of old American gods.
A force like Akha was needed to save anyone who trod in such a thronged necropolis!
Rising points of the sun at the solstices and equinoxes as observed from the Memphite necropolis.
How could the Old Kingdom Egyptians, having taken the trouble to construct the huge Giza necropolis and the rest of the Memphite monuments, fail to make any mention of the Great Sphinx?
Orion with the pattern of the Great Pyramids in the Memphite necropolis.
French group reported on nuclear and mitochondrial DNA from skeletons dug from a two-thousand-year-old necropolis in Mongolia.
Giza necropolis, site of the Great Sphinx and the three great Pyramids of Egypt, is, by any standards, an extraordinary architectural and archaeological puzzle.
Among the curious who had flocked together were many embalmers, laborers, and humble folk, who lived in the Necropolis.
It will lead us deeper into the heart of Abarrach, lead us down to the lands below, to the realm that is lettered on the map as Kairn Necros, to the city of Necropolis.
The Thebans stood together like Huge families before the pylons, waiting for the processions of priests, which they intended to join in order to march in their train round the great temple of the city, and thence to cross with the festal barks to the Necropolis.