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One day we wake up to the news of the desecration of ancient mosques and Sufi tombs.
This is an early-19th-century drawing by another British military officer of such a ceremonial, where the king was involved, and the king's job, one of the large parts of his job, apart from organizing warfare and things like that, was to look after the tombs of his ancestors, and when a king died, the stool that he sat on was blackened and put in the royal ancestral temple, and every 40 days, the King of Asante has to go and do cult for his ancestors.
You can see the tombs and pines and so on and so forth along the way.
The Etruscans built expansive necropoles, their grid-patterned streets lined with tombs.
The word cemetery, or “sleeping chamber,” was first used by ancient Greeks, who built tombs in graveyards at the edges of their cities.
Auburn in Cambridge, Massachusetts were lushly landscaped gardens filled with sculpted stones and ornate tombs.
It's like spitting on our soldiers' tombs; it's eroding our national solidarities and opening the doors to foreign invasions.
When we first visited the site, we could see the tombs of many high-ranking officials that had been looted.
Here is an example of one of the tower tombs that was destroyed in Palmyra.
They gained immortality in frescos, hieroglyphs, statues, and even tombs, mummified alongside their owners.
Okay, it features one lovely blink-and-you-miss-it-joke (when the dead are rising from their tombs, the names of the old time "horror" directors like Jacques Tournier and Jean Yarborough are featured in the tombstones) and the smashing of morally bankrupt Repu/con/rightist villains is on-target: whorish skanks preaching morals etc.
Some nice scenery, but the story itself--in which a self-proclaimed Egyptologist (Lesley-Anne Down) visits Egypt and, in the course of doing Egyptologist things in the most un-Egyptologistic of ways (e.g., flash photography in the tombs, the handling of old parchment, etc.), uncovers a black market turf war and somehow (in the span of two days, no less!)
The rest of the cast just follows each other in the tombs and wait for screams to react and run to their aid.
She learns that her own beloved father runs an international hard drugs network, hallucinates about eerie maggots crawling around everywhere and eventually hooks up with another archaeologist that fancies Etruscan tombs.
She's suffering from nightmares that focus around ancient tombs.
Sufis also pray at the tombs of holy people – sites that they regard as spiritually powerful.
The next day, Salafists bulldozed the Sha’ab mosque (and the more than 50 Sufi tombs that it contained) in the center of Tripoli in broad daylight – uninterrupted by security forces, who were at the scene.
It will not come soon enough to save the many sculptures already destroyed, libraries burned, or tombs pillaged.
More recently, radical Islamists destroyed tombs and manuscripts in Timbuktu.
Now Joschka Fischer sports elegant three-piece suits, lays wreaths at the tombs of unknown soldiers and, as foreign minister, represents Germany to the world.
At the time of the cholera, in order to enlarge this, a piece of wall was pulled down, and three acres of land by its side purchased; but all the new portion is almost tenantless; the tombs, as heretofore, continue to crowd together towards the gate.
Now turn to this side; here are the tombs of the Ambroise.
Charles and he made a journey to Rouen together to look at some tombs at a funeral furnisher's, accompanied by an artist, one Vaufrylard, a friend of Bridoux's, who made puns all the time.
"Don't you want to see the tombs?" he said.
"Well then," he said, "you want to see the tombs - graves - folks been buried, you know - coffins!""You are an untruther," I replied, getting roused; "I do not want to see tombs - not your tombs.
He said that one of the tombs had a bit of stone upon the top of it that had been said by some to be probably part of the remains of the figure of a man, and that another had some words, carved upon it, that nobody had ever been able to decipher.
Harris, however, revels in tombs, and graves, and epitaphs, and monumental inscriptions, and the thought of not seeing Mrs. Thomas's grave made him crazy.
There are also tombs of note in the church, and I was afraid I should never get Harris past them; but he didn't seem to think of them, and we went on.
Just before you come to the abbey, and right on the river's bank, is Bisham Church, and, perhaps, if any tombs are worth inspecting, they are the tombs and monuments in Bisham Church.
"Very good," said Sancho; "but now I want to know—the tombs where the bodies of those great lords are, have they silver lamps before them, or are the walls of their chapels ornamented with crutches, winding-sheets, tresses of hair, legs and eyes in wax?