Sentences with phrase «burial chamber»

A royal burial chamber was found in one of the structures.

We visit the Tomb of the Eagles, a Stone Age burial chamber that was filled with thousands of human bones and the remains of sea eagles many millennia ago.

They've climbed the Great Wall of China, Cape Horn, Sydney Harbor Bridge, and been inside a Pyramid burial chamber.

When we emerged from the burial chamber, it was believed that the noble's soul could ascend as well.

Visitors can learn about his journey into the afterlife by exploring the four walls of the burial chamber with a narrated tour, 360 - degree views, and interactive options.

Lara awakens in a tent owned by Mathias Vogel (Walton Goggins), a mercenary / archeologist, who not coincidentally has spent the last years on the island searching for Himiko's burial chamber.

English — In May, Egyptian archaeologists uncovered a burial chamber of a 13th Dynasty pyramid in Dahshur archaeological site in Giza, dating back to more than 3,600 years ago.

According to the researchers, the location of the discovery suggest that early hominins might have intentionally deposited bodies of their dead in a «burial chamber» of sorts — a «ritualized» behavior previously considered limited to modern humans.

«The King's Chamber may have been a dummy room, since the most important thing in the mind of the ancient Egyptians was to hide the burial chamber,» he says.

Because it is inaccessible, it probably isn't a burial chamber, says archaeologist Mark Lehner, director of Ancient Egypt Research Associates in Boston, who was not involved in the research.

The discovery in 1902 of the hypogeum, or subterranean burial chamber, at Hal Saflieni added another dimension to the cults of early Malta.

Beyond some traces of skin, however, no bodies have been discovered, although archaeologists have hypothesized that the site holds a burial chamber, perhaps still buried in the soil.

A burial chamber was built and at a later date, the roof was removed, leaving open courtyards.

Lee was working amid the ruins of the city of Waká when he lifted a stone and found himself looking into the burial chamber of a warrior queen with an intricately carved jade battle helmet.

Between 2001 and 2004, a German team of archaeologists discovered an undisturbed burial chamber in Arzhan 2 containing the richest collection of burial artefacts ever found in the Eurasian steppe.

But in 2015, high - resolution laser scans suggested that additional chambers lay behind the walls of the pharaoh's burial chamber.

In the Olon - Kurin - Gol grave, the ice that once crushed the mummy against the roof of the burial chamber had receded nine inches by the time the chamber was opened.

Other finds in this area included a burial chamber with two coffins.

In one case, a shaft led to the burial chamber, constructed of mud brick and sealed.

While some, such as a burial chamber found at Nakum, west of Naachtun, are relatively modest, containing only a few painted pots, others clearly advertise the great wealth and influence of the occupant.

Hermetic environments: If a burial chamber or coffin is sealed tightly enough, water and foreign microbes can not get in, leaving the corpse largely untouched.

An Anglo - Saxon building, possibly a royal mausoleum, was cut down and partially ruined, before being turned into a burial chamber.

German archaeologist Gottlieb Schumacher stands near the corbel arch of a burial chamber at Megiddo in 1905.

The 3,700 - year - old burial chamber of a pharaoh's daughter is believed to have been found near the remains of a recently - discovered pyramid in Egypt.

hindu criminal sign of swastika is formed by joining of upright hindu criminal Pharaoh's pyramid and up side down on same axis, invisible pyramid of his hindu pagan Priest, crossing point of both pyramid's creates Swastika above burial chamber of hindu, pagan, self centered Pharaoh.

Those temples and the underground burial chambers related to them contained many images of obese humans — some no larger than a few centimeters, others the size of giants — as well as of animals and phallic symbols.

Egyptian burial chambers show the cultivation flax and clothing made from flax fibers.

Established by the Romans in the 2nd century, you'll visit underground burial chambers with fascinating murals, now part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The entrance temples and the large main temple have been looted by way of vertical slit trenches, but burial chambers with wellpreserved friezes around the low ceiling remain.

Being also the main burial site of Polish monarchs over the centuries, it contributed to the expansion of the cathedral where many chapels with burial chambers have been added.

We take leisurely stops to see mountain villages, a hilltop necropolis of chullpas (pre-Inca burial chambers), and the abrupt ridgetop of Ajanaco, which marks the final high point where the Andes begin their swoop into the Amazon basin.

There is an abundance of alpine and Arctic flora here, along with many prehistoric burial chambers, tombs, and dolmens (ancient stone monuments).

You can find remnants of every era, from the aqueducts of the ancient Greeks to pagan burial chambers.

ATM features burial chambers, Maya artifacts, intact calcified human remains, and slate stelaes that were used for burials.

Within the park you can get a real sense of the history of the area through Stone Age burial chambers, Roman forts, churches and castles.

The frescoes were discovered in the catacombs of St Domitilla, Rome's largest and oldest network of burial chambers.

The red compositions are made of cinnabar, a mineral pigment used in royal burial chambers during the peak of Maya civilization.

In the Pyramora show literature it goes on to say, «Pyramids are often portrayed as sombre dark burial chambers, but were, in fact, regarded as a vehicle of resurrection to the afterlife.

Not exact matches

The new geophysical survey, released in September, includes several previously unidentified burial mounds and an earth and timber chamber, called a long barrow, that was likely used for excarnation: the act of removing flesh from the bones of the deceased in preparation for burial.

The study took advantage of exceptionally preserved horse remains in royal Scythian burials, such as the site of Arzhan, Tuva Republic, where over 200 horses have been excavated but also at Berel», Kazakhstan, where no less than 13 horses were preserved in a single, permafrozen funerary chamber.

Human or not, there are no obvious burials in any of the chambers but that does not mean that the quest for a Teotihuacan burial is over.

Thousands of bones of Homo naledi recovered in South Africa's chamber of secrets show unique features — and may be the relics of an ancient burial site

Nefertiti Resurrected (August 17; 9 to 11 p.m.; Discovery) follows Dr. Joann Fletcher into a side chamber of tomb KV35 in the royal burial ground at Luxor to think about a mummy's wig and what it might say about bygone Nubians.

The tremendous Geza Rohrig plays an Auschwitz Sonderkommando, a Jewish prisoner forced into aiding the Nazis in the concentration camps, who discovers what he believes is the body of his estranged child in the gas chambers and sets out to give him a proper burial.

We will participate in a 2 hour guided tour of the citadel, we'll visit the Main Plaza, the circular tower, the royal chambers, the sacred sun clock, the temple of the three windows and various burial grounds.