Sentences with word «ossuary»

When we first saw a nest of D. ossarium we were reminded on the historical bone houses or ossuaries in graveyards, and thus suggest in allusion to its biology «Bone - house Wasp» as common name.

How much do you know about Christianity and the Sediec Ossuary church built of human bones?

How much do you know about Christianity and the Sediec Ossuary church built of human bones and the Crusaders?

Traditionally, cemetaries make more room by putting old bones into ossuaries.

Examples include the «bone chandelier» in the Czech Republic's Sedlec Ossuary and Iran's Zoroastrian Towers of Silence.

Well connected to the capital by trains and buses, Kutná Hora is home to the Bone Ossuary that dates back to the 14th century.

I actually saw these two ossuaries at the Discovery Times Square Exhibit and they were really amazing.

It evokes the catacombs and the intention is that you feel as though you are in an underwater ossuary.

Why not take a guided tour of the cathedral, along with the nearby Ossuary and the former Royal Mint.

Using scholarly research techniques, the Pates examine such media - hype fodder as Dan Brown's best - selling novel, The Da Vinci Code, the Jesus Seminar's radical approach to color coding the words of Jesus, the apocryphal gospel such as the Gospel of Thomas, the James Ossuary and other headline - grabbing events.

No visit to Kutna Hora is complete without stopping at the Sedlec Ossuary (better known as «the bone church»), a short distance from the main town center.

Christianity and the Sediec Ossuary church built of human bones?

Does the Ossuary that bears the name of Jesus really contain his bones?

I just saw some interesting news about some archaeologists who claim to have discovered Jesus» ossuary and another one of a relative.

Each family tomb only had so much room, and so when a body had decomposed, the bones would be put into a stone box called an Ossuary, and the names of the people would often get inscribed on to the box so that descendants would know whose bones were inside the box.

It bids us plunge into the depths of Christianity's harrowing sublimity — into, that is, our ossuaries encrusted with bone, our catacombs whose chambers ancient hymns once filled.

Ossuary.

I assume the «graves» they were in were not caskets or ossuaries...

Apparently, some 15 years ago, a man in Jerusalem obtained an «ossuary» (a small box used to hold human bones) at...

The bone box, known as an ossuary, is in the hands of a private collector in Jerusalem.

The ossuary was not uncovered in an archaeological excavation, but apparently surfaced on the antiquities market.

From the safety of our computers we visited a slew of terrifying locales, from an ossuary in the Czech Republic that's made from the remains of tens of thousands of people to an eerily silent forest in Japan where hundreds of people have committed suicide, and even a Pennsylvania ghost town that's alarmingly reminiscent of the town of Silent Hill.

Paul Koudounaris is a macabre bon vivant, traveling the world with his repertoire of velvet frock coats and gaining access to crypts and ossuaries that the average death - interested tourist could only dream of.

As unique as the life you are remembering, we also offer the options of scattering ashes in our meadow or placing them in our Ossuary or a niche inside our waterfall.

If the client chooses the burial or ossuary, they can visit the site during regular office hours.

Our clients have the option of having their pets remains returned to them, having an actual burial, or simply having some of the ashes dropped into an ossuary.

I made my way through, crunching over wet gravel and ducking my head to avoid scraping it on the dripping ceiling, until I reached two pillars that marked the entry to the ossuary.

Visit important archaeological buildings such as the Ossuary, the Observatory, Las Monjas Group and the Sacred Cenote, a natural sinkhole that used to be a sacred place for sacrifices.

His guide, a young monk, led him down into the ossuary — «room after room of bones, of every monk who had served at St. Catherine's.»