Sentences with phrase «burying their dead beneath»

Beginning some 9,500 years ago, in roughly 7500 B.C., and continuing for nearly two millennia, people came together at Çatalhöyük to build hundreds of tightly clustered mud - brick houses, burying their dead beneath the floors and adorning the walls with paintings, livestock skulls and plaster reliefs.

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The practice of burying the dead in the ground no doubt contributed to the vague mental picture of another world beneath the surface of the earth.

Okay I am sure I was not the only one that thought Arsenal was dead and buried at half - time, and when Liverpool scored the second goal I was ready to bury my head beneath the cushions, but I have to admit that I was mesmerised by the way we fought back and proved that we never give up even when we are two goals behind.

Sniffing a dead deer buried beneath an avalanche, a wolverine bores down like a tunneling machine on full throttle.

Ol' Hank dead and buried beneath six feet of rusty red Alabama dirt for the better part of a decade now, still taking their nickels and making them cry.»

One really stands out though, and that's Amadeo Morandi, a 17th - century Italian nobleman who is dead and buried miles beneath Sicilian soil.