necropolis

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• His first day in the necropolis seemed to endure forever also. THEBES OF THE HUNDRED GATES
• By many this isolated rock is considered the arx or citadel of Veii; but the existence of so many sepulchral caves in it is, as Mr. Dennis says, conclusive of the fact that it was the Necropolis of the ancient city, which must therefore, according to Etruscan and Roman usage regarding the interment of the dead, have been outside the walls. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
• In 1964, a group of archaeologists discovered an Egyptian tomb in the necropolis of Saqqara.
• In all, it is enough memorialising to make you see Lower Manhattan as one vast necropolis.
• This vast necropolis of some two and a half million tombs, some with fractured columns and chipped headstones, still bears witness to the ferocity of second world-war bombing raids.
• Abydos cemetery is one of the predynastic and early-dynastic necropolis in ancient Egypt.
• Countless pyramids, obelisks and urns, rising far and wide above the cedars and cypresses, showed the extent of the splendid necropolis, which is inhabited by pale, shrouded emigrants from its living sister below. Views a-foot
• It is located in the city of Giza, a necropolis of ancient Memphis, and today it is part of Cairo, Egypt.
• The remodelled market is the most recent layer in a rich architectural geology that dates back to a Roman necropolis, unearthed during excavations for the new building.
• Egyptian authorities say archeologists have found an ancient tomb that suggests another necropolis is yet to be discovered near the Great Pyramids of Giza. Archeologists in Egypt Uncover Ancient Tomb