Sentences with phrase «walls of the tomb»

The original limestone cave walls of the tomb were also preserved to a higher level than expected inside the edicule.

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Large numbers of conscripts working on the wall died, and those working on the mausoleum were killed to preserve the secrecy of the tomb.

If a wall of separation is erected between religion and the state (and its schools), that wall will prove to be a tomb in which church, state, and schools will decay with a civilization that has lost its soul.

Mr McLean and the Archbishop's delegation said a brief prayer outside Abraham's tomb: «May the walls of fear between Abraham's family come tumbling down».

It is found as hieroglyphics on the walls of old tombs.

How much more, then, when the means of the penetration of man's otherwise impregnable little fortress - tomb, the tiny, sealed capsule of his puny life, is a Word - the Word» How totally impossible to describe the process initiated and executed from Without, by Another, himself quite unseen, or rather seen only in the limited form of a particular function, or to explain the breaking of the walls of the fortress - tomb, and the granting of a kind of release from the capsule!

At the western edge of the rotunda, however, some ancient rock - hewn tombs are still to be seen, showing conclusively that the area was used as a burial ground before it was enclosed within the city wall.

One of the earliest examples of its practice was discovered on a wall painting in an Egyptian tomb dating back to 2350BC.

As part of the administration's «Persecute Opuni agenda», government and party communicators have started posting Dr Opuni's mother's tomb on their Facebook wall to incite the public against the former cocobod C.E.O. Communicators of government are treating the issue as if the former cocobod boss was «a nobody» before taking the cocobod boss appointment.

Technicians scan the walls of Tutankhamun's tomb, searching for a possible chamber hidden behind the walls.

The tomb of Khonsuemheb is connected to an unfinished tomb hewn in the southern wall of the forecourt of Userhat's tomb, and has a T - shaped plan.

On the side wall of the northern part of the transverse hall, the tomb owner Khonsuemheb, his wife Mutemheb, and his daughter Isetkha are represented as statues.

More than 3,000 tombs, dwellings, and temples are etched into the sandstone cliffs surrounding Petra, and recent excavations have revealed a caravan of camels carved into the canyon walls.

It describes thieves trying to tunnel through the wall of an adjoining private tomb in order to plunder the pyramid.

Brown stains on the walls of Tut's tomb are fungal mats, indicating a hurried burial.

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Hospital hallways become endless, and the doctor's home resembles an ornamental suburban tomb, each wall decorated so that not a single picture frame is out of place.

In tomb complexes and temples, his staff copied wall paintings and took casts of bas - reliefs.

In a way Almereyda's film, shot prior to most of the tech stocks going belly - up, anticipates the downswing: Its Wall Street is ghostly and devastated, full of glass tombs that scrape a dismal sky and inhabited by, among other Gloomy Guses, a Hamlet (Ethan Hawke) who's hollowed - out like so many victims of modern materialism and parental loss.

The starting point for each activity is a New Kingdom Egyptian wall painting from the tomb of Nebamun, who lived in the city of Thebes around 1325 BC.

When he was seventeen the young Carter, son of artist Samuel Carter, traveled with a family friend to Egypt where he recorded a dig and copied scenes from tomb walls.

The Tesem, which resemble them, are often seen on the walls of Egyptian tombs.

Archeological excavations of ancient Egyptian tombs revealed images of Salukis depicted on the walls, and mummified remains of these dogs were also discovered.

Greyhounds of all sizes have been depicted on walls and in tombs since ancient times.

Ying Zheng thought big: his monumental building projects included the beginnings of the Great Wall and the imperial tombs near Xian, where he was buried not far from an army of thousands of terra - cotta soldiers.

Later, casting further and wider, she pulled in Japanese prints, Indian miniature painting (one of the most impressive compositions in the show, painted directly onto the gallery wall, is named Rajasthan), and ancient Egyptian tombs, whose carefully integrated decorative schemes inspired her approach to a set of hospital murals.

Relief paintings of these deities, symbols of motherly protective care for the dead, are found on walls of ancient Egyptian tombs.

Depictions of Anubis often dressed the walls of burial sites, including the tomb of King Tut and the Temple of Ramses II.

From laser scans of Tutankhamun's tomb — taken to create an exact replica of it — Reeves believes he has identified two walled - over doors that lead to the resting place of Nefertiti, who some archeologists believe to have been King Tut's mother.

The choices of Sawers and Dame Anna Pringle, our woman in Moscow, are much stronger as art: Walter Sickert, Heath, some bittersweet space - race Pop by Derek Boshier and Bridget Riley's beautiful Reflection, bought for the British embassy in Cairo partly because her sheaf of stripes was inspired by the colours of tomb walls in Upper Egypt, but also because the abstraction dovetailed felicitously with Muslim culture.

They include everything from information on the walls of Pharaohs tombs to crop reports such as the remarkable wine harvest record used in Times of Feast, Times of Famine by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie or the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) records I used to reconstruct almost 300 years.

Most surviving Etruscan art comes from tombs, including all the fresco wall - paintings, which show scenes of feasting and some narrative mythological subjects.