Sentences with phrase «burial sites of»

Among the most moving experiences of her Fellowship were visits to the burial sites of two Aboriginal children: a boy who was interred beneath the Basilica of St Paul's Outside the Walls in Rome, and a girl's grave in England.

For Neolithic Tango the objects are lithic spheres or stone balls and refer to similar objects found in the burial sites of indigenous peoples (Taino, Arawak and Carib) of the Caribbean.

This work is paired with Neolithic jade bi discs and t «sung columns found in burial sites of the Liangzhu (3400 - 2250 BC) culture in North - Eastern China.

I spent my Birthday in the Philippines, the most exciting part was hiking in Sagada, Mountain Province with my sister Jhell and visiting the ancient burial sites of the locals (known the Hanging Coffins) and the views of the Sagada Rice Terraces was breath taking.

In his sustained apologia for Christianity, Chateaubriand hurls a cry of protest against the state - sponsored desecration of the basilica of Saint - Denis, centuries - old burial site of French kings.

Republican mayoral candidate Paul Massey visited the Ohel Chabad - Lubavitch, the Cambria Heights burial site of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, Friday.

A team of archaeologists, led by Cat Jarman from the University of Bristol's Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, has discovered that a mass grave uncovered in the 1980s dates to the Viking Age and may have been a burial site of the Viking Great Army war dead.

Vagnari is located further inland and believed to be the burial site of labourers who would have worked on a Roman rural estate.

Conservation team leader Ashley Lingle prepares to remove a wooden object from a burial site of four individuals, including three juveniles.

That is about 20 kilometres southeast of the proposed burial site of at least 25 000 tonnes of highly radioactive spent fuel and high - level waste from the US's -LSB-...]

It remains the only known burial site of a person from the Clovis culture.

Bethesda describes Scalecaller Peak as «the burial site of a long - dead Dragon Priest,» which is now teeming with cultists who plot to unleash a deadly plague upon Tamriel.

Though it's nearly as muddled as it is brimming with good ideas, the film is ultimately a savvier position paper on the American late teenager in suburbia than its predecessor — despite its genre's tendency to proudly stand on the burial site of that very subject.

How to obtain numerous Fort Wayne insurance quotes is not as mysterious as the actual burial site of Johnny Appleseed.

On a city tour, see the remarkable Recoleta Cemetery, burial site of Eva Perón.

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.

Continue with a visit to the Cathedral of Seville, the largest Gothic cathedral in the world and home to the burial site of Christopher Columbus.

Other fun experiences include a visit to Rome's Colosseum, where gladiator fights took place during the Roman Empire, and Roman Forum, dating back to the 7th century BC; a boat ride to Venice's St. Mark's Square; a visit to Assisi's Basilica, burial site of St. Francis and home to frescoes by Giotto; and a visit to Neuschwanstein Castle, King Ludwig II's fairytale castle nestled in the beautiful Bavarian Alps.

Your guided sightseeing tours include the cog railway in Rio de Janeiro that takes you 2,300 feet up to the summit of Corcovado Mountain to view the infamous Christ the Redeemer statue and 360 - degree views of the city; Recoleta Cemetery, burial site of Eva Peron, in Buenos Aires; and a visit to the 18th - century Cathedral in Santiago.

Your guided sightseeing tours include the cog railway in Rio de Janeiro that takes you 2,300 feet up to the summit of Corcovado Mountain to view the infamous Christ the Redeemer statue and 360 - degree views of the city; Recoleta Cemetery, burial site of Eva Peron, in Buenos Aires; and a visit to the 18th - century Cathedral in Santiago.A highlight of this South America tour is a visit to Iguassu Falls, where you'll experience the falls on both the Brazilian and Argentine sides.

Jordan is a journey through religious and ancient history: from Mount Nebo, burial site of Moses, from where he viewed the «Promised Land» to Bethany, baptism site of Jesus on the river Jordan; from Madaba's mosaic map of ancient Palestine to Jerash, best preserved Roman city of the Decapolis and known as «Pompeii of the East»; from the evocative Desert Castles of the Umayyad caliphs, used as a refuge by T.E. Lawrence to the Crusader castle of Kerak on the King's Highway.

Martel also provided a valued resting place for pilgrims journeying to the nearby cliff - side village of Rocamadour which was believed to be the burial site of the biblical St. Zaccheus.

The Avlida Hotel is a large hotel complex set on the Tombs of the Kings Road, very near to the famous burial site of the ancient kings.

Visual Arts in Sligo Cultural History, Drumcliffe Burial Site of WB Yeats, Famous Artists (like Jack Butler Yeats) and Craft Galleries.

He cites a large horse - shoe shaped sculpture by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen planted at the burial site of Louie, the last horse to be buried at the former home of the 1rst Calvary Regiment.

Not exact matches

Native Americans march to a burial ground sacred site that was disturbed by bulldozers building the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), near the encampment where hundreds of people have gathered to join the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's protest of the oil pipeline that is slated to cross the Missouri River nearby, Sept. 4, 2016 near Cannon Ball, North Dakota.

But the Standing Rock Sioux, whose tribal lands are a half - mile south of the proposed route, have said the pipeline could pollute the tribe's drinking water and desecrate sacred burial and prayer sites.

Of course IED's would have made no sense either since the idea is not to kill random people who happen to be walking around the burial site

However, it also disallowed the extremists from creating a shrine of his burial site; or their ability to relocate his remains and take them to a «holy site» of their choosing; making a martyr out of him.

There you can see the site of the crucifixion and burial, and check out the Angel's Chapel, which supposedly contains the stone on which the angel sat who announced the resurrection to the frightened women.

By the second century, Roman soldiers were bringing their new faith to Britain, and in the middle of the third century St. Alban became Britain's first known Christian martyr, but we don't know much more about who these Christians were, and it is here that Malcolm Lambert begins in Pagans and Christians: The Conversion of Britain from Alban to Bede, producing a captivating narrative by squeezing what he can» but no more» from archeological evidence (mostly from burial sites) and the limited historical record.

While this claim can not be historically proven beyond doubt, it is certain that we are looking here at the mortal remains of an early martyr whose burial site was a place of reverence and pilgrimage from the first days of the Christian era.

We should have put his burial site in the middle of nowhere with a drone constantly monitoring the location.

It is celebrated at midday on Easter Eve in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, on the site that church tradition holds to be Christ's burial place.

It is possible that Arimathea (like the later Emmaus) is actually an imagined site, for it is not known from any other source.9 It is just possible that the name «Joseph» may have been used to personalize the unknown Jew, presumed to have been responsible for the ritual burial, because of the biblical tradition which told of the care with which Joseph, the patriarch, transported the body of his father all the way back to Machpelah for burial.10

At the burial site an American flag was folded and presented to my grandmother, and the noise of a 21 - gun salute made us jump.

It all began when the Naperville Cemetery Association, needing more burial plots, decided to end Naperville Unit School District 203's lease of 4.7 association - owned acres for two athletic fields for Naperville Central High School School officials sought nearby land to replace the fields so athletes would not be bused to a far - flung site.

The High Court has rejected a bid by a representative of the Council of British Druid Orders (CoBDO), King Arthur Uther Pendragon, to return cremated remains to an ancient burial site at Stonehenge.

Brian Carlin, Researcher and Co-Founder of the Hunts Point Slave Burial Ground (HPSBG) Educational Project said: «We are grateful to Senator Klein for his advocacy on behalf of this site with the NY State Department of Parks.

In 2013, faculty and students of P.S. 48 in the Bronx uncovered evidence of an African Slave Burial Ground Site.

«We must redouble our efforts to uncover the history of those who were enslaved,» said state Sen. Jesse Hamilton, a member of the Independent Democratic Conference, referring to efforts to uncover what may have been a slave burial site in Brooklyn.

The new digital map of Stonehenge's environs shows details of numerous still - buried sites that had never before been identified, including pits, burial mounds and additional stone circles.

It's in Birka, one of Sweden's greatest Viking Age archaeological sites: In addition to being a trading center, the town saw more than 3,000 burials.

The researchers looked for evidence of ancient altercations by examining 350 adult Neolithic skulls from British burial sites and analyzing the microstructure of any fractures they found.

For instance, some believe the pit might have been an early burial site, part of a simple funeral rite.

Orlando's group examined DNA from the bones of 15 Iron Age stallions from the ancient Scythian civilization: Two stallions were from a 2,700 - year - old grave site in Russia and 13 were sacrificed in a burial ritual about 2,300 years ago in Kazakhstan.

«In the 1800s there were literally tons of them dug up from old and new dynasty burial sites,» says Sabin.

As the U.S. makes new plans for disposing of spent nuclear fuel and other high - level radioactive waste deep underground, geologists are key to identifying safe burial sites and techniques.

This figurine, thought to depict Lady K'abel, was part of a cache of 23 ceramic figures excavated from a burial site at El Peru - Waka» in 2006.

Dr. Yitzhak Paz of the Antiquities Authority and Ben - Gurion University says that the site, which was recently detailed in the International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, resembles early burial sites in Europe and was likely built in the early Bronze Age.