Some burial sites

Usage examples of tombs.

Although eight was not a particularly overwhelming number, all eight openings were covered with huge sheets of clear polyurethane due to the construction, the translucent curtains apparently intended to keep dust off the tombs inside the alcoves.

When churches honored their most distinguished members with ornate tombs inside the sanctuary, surviving family members often demanded the family be buried together .

Now he rested in the most sacred of tombs, buried five stories down, directly beneath the central cupola of the basilica.

The prostrate bodies seemed to emerge from within the tombs, pressing upward against the marble lids as if trying to escape their mortal restraints.

Around the perimeter, interspersed with the tombs, a series of semicircular niches were hewn in the wall.

However, if the church did not have space or funds to create tombs for an entire family, they sometimes dug an ossuary annex-a hole in the floor near the tomb where they buried the less worthy family members.

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The talk was of spells and fell monsters vanquished and wizards who would not die rising from their tombs, and folk were crowding around to listen.

Caretakers performed regular maintenance and upkeep to keep the tombs in top condition.

Hunters were freed from tombs situated in the Place of the Rent, called Morn.

The chapel must have been built long after the tombs, and it was not one used by the royal family.

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Egypt that sometimes reveal undiscovered tombs to local grave robbers.

Fully forty Egyptian monarchs were buried there, and some of the tombs are enormous.