| 单词 | tomb |
| 例句 | She wanted us to look like something Anglo-Saxon, carved on a tomb; or Christmas card angels, regimented in our robes of purity. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z At Sikandra, Akbar’s tomb, they gaze at gilded frescoes in the entryway, chipped, ransacked, burned, the gems gouged out with penknives, graffiti etched into the stone. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I lay like a still and silent effigy on a tomb in the blackness of Hamlet’s chamber while questions coursed through my brain. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z At times I could not prevent myself from lying flat on the ground, pretending I was inside one of those beehive tombs. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I crave pardon; neb Goldsmith, for coming late. I could not help it. I—I carried an offering to my father’s tomb.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z The pounding of her feet echoed through the tomb as she ran between the sarcophagi for Damaris, the sword of the ancient king. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z In one tomb archaeologists had discovered soldiers, servants, and even dancing girls laid out as though they were sleeping. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They laid siege to the tomb all night, but the following morning, both force fields remained intact. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The school house was quiet, like a tomb frozen over by winter. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “I am closing the tomb, so that the Un-Dead may not enter.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z For the marsh itself was both a sanctuary and a tomb, its slender grasses rich in both food and safety, in both food and danger. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “But his tomb isn’t there anymore,” Jason guessed. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Soon after arriving in the deserted village Capricorn had had gratings fitted over the narrow niches where long-dead priests slept in their stone tombs. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Archaeologists then discovered an even more interesting tomb. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The tomb’s exact location appeared on the message boards that evening, along with screenshots showing the force field the Sixers had erected to keep everyone else out. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z They went to a vaudeville stage show, visited the tomb of an unknown soldier from the Great War, and took in a light opera. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I realized then that Halliday had placed the tomb inside a null-communication zone, so no one could receive calls, texts, or e-mail while they were inside. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Death, mounted on his pale horse, seemed to ride triumphant; there was but a step between the people in the city and the tomb. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z “Someone who has, you know, good grades and stuff? Our whole tomb depends on it. No offense, but you can’t give that job to just anybody.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z She was not depraved enough to end this vicious cycle by throttling him in a strait jacket, by sealing him up in a cement-block tomb lighted by fluorescent tubes. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z "And high above the putrid corpse a crystal chandelier is tinkling. It tinkles and twinkles, but not one breath of air stirs in that gloomy tomb of a room." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Emma tiptoed forward to peek behind the tomb—and then her face fell. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Talk all the way to the tomb, he said to himself. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z In the darkness Thisbe crept out and made her way in all secrecy to the tomb. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Coming up, there’s a large tomb that resembles a pale blue teapot, and I know my mother’s headstone is a few rows behind it. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z It was dark in that tomb, dark as a tin mine, but Bod saw as the dead see and the room gave up its secrets to him. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z The place was as silent as a tomb and appeared to be deserted. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “This place is like a tomb,” Miss Violet shivered. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z And in the mouth of the empty tomb that waited for Lord Eddard Stark, beneath his stately granite likeness, the six fugitives huddled round their little cache of bread and water and dried meat. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Julia Grant died on December 14,1902, at the age of seventy- six, and lies alongside her husband in a tomb in New York City. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z His very smell like that of coming winter, a tomb, the heavy inertia of time. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Between the tomb and the wall was a gap we couldn’t see behind from where we stood; a perfect hiding spot for a bird. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z His body was preserved so that a continuous stream of mourners could view him lying in state in a special tomb on Red Square in Moscow. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z How could he tell her that he hated the house, that his mother and father were dead and didn’t know it, that if it wasn’t for television the place would be like a tomb. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “The tomb is not even begun,” Ranofer said more abruptly than he intended. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z The hallway is quiet as a tomb, but that doesn't mean the Farrars are gone. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z For over sixty years, the official history of Elizebeth’s World War II unit was buried deep in the “sealed tombs” of the government archives. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Arthur bent and kissed her, and then we sent him and Quincey out of the tomb; the Professor and I sawed the top off the stake, leaving the point of it in the body. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Privately Ranofer wished lid, coffin and Lordship in the tomb already, but he refrained from saying so. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z I grabbed the lip of the tomb and put my foot on the ladder. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Her flickering light fell on a flat-topped tomb that rose a few feet from the floor. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The door to the tomb was wide open. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Richard decided not to have a funeral for his mother, and Mrs. Caruthers was placed in the family tomb with a minimum of ceremony. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z There was no electric light down here, no heating either, or any other comforts, only the quiet tombs and the mice scurrying over the cracked flagstones of the floor. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The answer lay on her right—the right passageway, the passage that led to the tomb a few levels below. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The tomb split open from head to foot. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I was looking for the tomb of a famous writer—Marcel Proust, I think, or maybe George Sand. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z They dressed the maiden as though for her death and carried her to the hill with greater sorrowing than if it had been to her tomb. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Margie looked around at the tombs and asked, “What kind of person could do this?” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Then I would not know any secrets, I would be going out to feast today instead of to some dark and fearful tomb. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z For what purpose they had made this place, as a town or secret temple or a tomb of kings, none in Rohan could say. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I see myself lying in a tomb beside my father’s sheeted body where the worms feed. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “His body decays in the marble tomb in the grounds of this castle, I have seen it, Potter, and he will not return!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The tomb itself was hidden by trees, and I could not see where the figure disappeared. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z The tomb was hidden less than seventy kilometers from his school! Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Was it destined to perish in this tomb of ice along with all those on board? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “Yeah. I came back up here to call you, while I wait for the server to reset at midnight. The tomb is empty right now, because your friend, Art3mis, already blew through here earlier today.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Celaena hit the landing, ran for the tomb door, and prayed to gods whose names she’d forgotten, but who she hoped had not yet forgotten her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He had forged it for Lord Eddard's tomb, to keep his ghost at rest. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Rickon even showed them the deep vaults under the earth where the stonemason was carving father's tomb. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Its door'd been left open, but inside was dark as that cracked tomb under Saint Gabriel's. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “And then we spend the night, you and I, in the churchyard where Lucy lies. This is the key that lock the tomb. I had it from the coffin-man to give to Arthur.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z The air smelled of mildew, as in an old tomb. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The tomb’s layout and contents continued to match the module description exactly, down to the last detail. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The chilled stone chamber, which felt like some kind of tomb, was plunged into total darkness. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z “Our fathers sleep in the tomb, but the wrong done to them can never sleep,” they said. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The least she could do was look in the tomb for some clues. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z They discussed the possibility of giving it a proper burial, but it would have required interminable paperwork to have the tomb unsealed in order to include the missing part. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Like the doorway of a tomb,” she said. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z He passed by Bryant’s receptionist—attractive, with waist-length braided silver hair—and then the inspector’s secretary, an ancient monster from the Jurassic swamp, frozen and sly, like some archaic apparition fixated in the tomb world. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z One day at her father’s tomb she made an offering to the dead and prayed, “O Father, guide Orestes to his home.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z If the same was true for the rest of the tomb, I might be able to survive long enough to locate the Copper Key. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Anxious though he was to leave the subject of tombs, he went on. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z But I pushed it away and walked out with great furious strides, cursing, among the lines of tombs and cypresses. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It looked like a big gray igloo, but it was a cairn—one of the Neolithic tombs after which Cairnholm was named. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Bill’s taken us around all the tombs and you wouldn’t believe the curses those old Egyptian wizards put on them. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Here in the chill damp darkness of the tomb his third eye had finally opened. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I wished more than anything we could bury May in a beehive tomb. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z You could die in a river, but maybe you could get reborn in it, too, like the beehive tombs August had told me about. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The tomb’s entrance was buried in the side of a crumbling cliff. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z With a miserable gesture, Harry got up, turned his back on Ginny and on Dumbledore’s tomb, and walked away around the lake. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z To Elizebeth, traveling around the Midwest, he wrote, “Honey, the house has been like a tomb.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Another told how pitilessly Galahad had dealt with a fiend in a tomb, how he had cooled the well of lust, and how the castle of the leprous lady had finally been tumbled down. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It came again a few seconds later, from the rear corner of the tomb. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “Aye, I do. It is more pleasant, is it not? Than tombs, and rooms, and...” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z It’s a fantastic place because they have acres and acres all for their own tomb, and it’s fenced in with a private road which they only open up when one of the Mastersons dies. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z She left the Worthington tomb, then, and she went looking for her son, whom she found, as she expected to, at the top of the hill, staring out over the town. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z The white marble tomb, an unnecessary blot on the familiar landscape. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Taken at face value, it seemed to say that the key was hidden in a tomb somewhere, one filled with horrifying stuff. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Cleopatra’s End On August 12, Cleopatra asked to visit Mark Antony’s tomb, a request that Octavian granted. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Mistress Owens pushed him out of the Owenses’ little tomb. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z She walked to Celaena, and it was all the assassin could do to keep from backing out of the tomb and running away. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Her vision blurring, she left the tomb and staggered up the stairs, clutching her bleeding hand to her chest. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Polina was buried in the wall of the Kremlin just behind Lenin’s tomb. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z It looked like something fetched from a tomb, so dried and drawn. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z He had sunk down into the tomb world. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The air suddenly seemed stale, like a tomb that hadn’t been opened for a very long time. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The back windows make it special, letting in light, not making you feel like you’re in a tomb. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z A little way off, beyond a line of scattered juniper-trees, which marked the pathway to the church, a white, dim figure flitted in the direction of the tomb. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Walking into Saint Sarah’s house is like walking into a tomb. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z She’d never make it back to her chambers alive, but if she was fast enough, perhaps she could make it to the tomb. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Matt could see the buried tomb in his mind’s eye—the broken wineglasses, El Patron’s portrait staring up from the coffin, the bodyguards laid out in their dark suits. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Kings made tombs more splendid than houses of the living, and counted old names in the rolls of their descent dearer than the names of sons. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “Because he went to his tomb ten months ago, to join my mother, who has been with the gods these many years.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Or perhaps especially by a tomb raider from a family of assassins. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He then explained this affectionate apostrophe, by touching his brooch representing the lady and the weeping willow at the tomb with the urn upon it, and saying, “Had it made for me, express!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Reilly waited for at least a splash of water or a rustle of paper, but the bathroom door might as well have been the door of a tomb. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m not exactly a fan of vertigo-inducing roller coasters, but at least it’s a break from the stone-cold, silent tomb of my house. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z “Naw,” I muttered, throwing a pebble down off the front of the tomb. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z There might be no burial, and thus no treasure in the tomb, for years. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z CASSANDRA: The stench is like a breath from the tomb. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Bod had stores of food, the kind that lasted, cached in the crypt, and more in some of the chillier tombs and vaults and mausoleums. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z It sounded like a hundred xylophones inside a stone tomb. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z There was a silence of the tomb yard. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z That evening, our football team was playing an away game against OPS #0571, which was located roughly an hour’s run from the forest where the tomb was hidden. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Celaena looked to her right, but all she saw was the tapestry that concealed the tomb. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I have found the light of your pyre, your tomb. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z In one tomb archaeologists had discovered soldiers, servants, and even dancing girls laid out as though they were sleeping. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z As for the wealthy, their tombs were underground mansions crammed with gold and treasure. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Their likenesses were carved into the stones that sealed the tombs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Every year, her whole classroom and the surrounding hall are turned into a life-size walk-in tomb. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z It took me a little over an hour to make my way back through the tomb and up to the surface. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z But could it have something to do with robbing tombs? The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z In its place was a white marble tomb, encasing Dumbledore’s body and the table on which he had rested. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “Or a tomb. An igloo is round but your books are square, not curved. Do you need glasses?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The tomb drawing clung in his mind, and so did Heqet’s idea that there was some thieves’ plan connected with that little room. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z The sour aunt lay under a quilt with her dentures in a jar by her bed, still as a marble duchess on a church tomb. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Here and there, the sultans’ tombs were stacked up like bright chips. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Lefty saw the brightly tiled kitchens and bathrooms hanging in midair, half-enclosed spaces whose rich colors reminded him of the sultans’ tombs, and he had an idea. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Everything after that became a series of steps, a dance that she had to execute perfectly or else she’d fall apart right there in that tomb and never get up. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z She had climbed out and stumbled through the stones until she paused by her father’s tomb. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z So the tomb had to be hidden somewhere else. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The tomb is a great big marble building that’s set in the side of a hill so only the fancy front sticks out. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z He told Robin, too, of far countries: the Holy Land where crusaders had fought for the tomb of our Lord, and of Greece and Rome, whose ancient languages were the beginnings of many other tongues. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Corpses, tombs, or burying treasures with important people. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “A small field with a larger field over it. They lower them in sequence, whenever they want to let more Sixers enter the tomb. Like an air lock.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z A second later, the inner force field was dropped, allowing the Sixers to enter the tomb. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Win or lose, he would see Griffin’s Roost again before he died, and be buried in the tomb beside his father’s. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Mother Ermentrude, in a gold-edged green cope, sends the three Marys to visit the tomb of Jesus, a large stone that has been hauled into the sanctuary. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z What if the Limerick was saying that the tomb was hidden right here, on Ludus? Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z But they’d been in the tomb; there was no way they could have been in the castle halls without someone noticing. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z It had been four years, almost half a lifetime, since Bod had visited the Indigo Man’s tomb, but he still remembered the way. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z ‘It looks like a tomb,’ muttered Frodo, and bent forwards with a curious sense of foreboding, to look more closely at it. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Norton called out, and I turned to see him standing on top of the tomb. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z He felt like the inhabitant of an ancient tomb, an Egyptian pharaoh or Chaldean king. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Near the front, it contained a crude illustration of the hill concealing the tomb. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z In Sacramento, the blue Easter morning seemed always to rhyme with the gospel account of the three Marys wending their way through a garden to discover an empty tomb. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The young people joined in, and after an hour, when the sun was already shining on that anguished landscape, they lifted the patron from his tomb. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It looked as if it might have lived for long, long years among the tombs, alone. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z But I told myself that if I just kept at it and continued doing research, I’d eventually learn what I needed to know to figure out the tomb’s hiding place. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I wanted to put candles on his tomb. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z It was like a tomb; without the kids the schoolhouse was a giant, quiet tomb with the moaning wind crying around its edges. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She shouldn’t have entered the tomb, she shouldn’t have strayed into the sacred places of the dead when she was so stained and tainted by her crimes. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Aye, to the Valley, to the tomb itself. And into the tomb.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Kofun tombs are up to 1,500 feet long and over 100 feet high, making them possibly the largest earth mound tombs in the ancient world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Because Adena mounds served as tombs, researchers know more about their deaths than their lives. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Accompanying the noble few in the tombs to the world of the deceased were copper beads and bracelets, stone tablets and collars, textiles and awls, and, sometimes, stone pipes in the shape of surreal animals. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Then she returned to the car and asked the driver to send someone to bring flowers to her father’s tomb. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z But I guess the rest was all right, down in the tombs with torches and swords and stuff. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z He liked the tombs of the ancient Chaldeans even more. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He thrust his arm into the blackness inside the tomb, as into the mouth of some great beast. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She gained precious time as the ridderak skidded to a halt, missing the tomb. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Then I too moved; but I had to go round headstones and railed-off tombs, and I stumbled over graves. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Without people or laughter or learning, the domed building was just a fancy tomb filled with dry and dusty books. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Like Jesus, rolling the stone from his tomb when everyone'd thought that he was a goner. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Thus the vanishing point in Masaccio’s Trinity is just above the top of the tomb, in apparently featureless space. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Then I threw my empty bottle way in back of the tomb. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z Ranofer wanted to tell him not to try, not to think or speak of tombs again. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z For the first time since entering the tomb, I wasn’t sure what to do next. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He limped on to his bench to resume work on the jewel box he was making for the tomb of a wealthy Theban. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Then respectfully he entered the tiny chapel of his father’s tomb. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z I was the only one left in the tomb then. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z The naiads, in pity for him, so bold and so young to die, buried him and carved upon the tomb:— Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z With some little difficulty—for it was very dark, and the whole place seemed so strange to us—we found the Westenra tomb. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Then the train resumed its journey, leaving in its wake, in a snowy field in Poland, hundreds of naked orphans without a tomb. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z As he got closer, his pleasure turned into concern: why did Mr. and Mrs. Owens stand like that, arranged on each side of the tomb like characters from a stained-glass window? The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Nearing the tomb, we spread out, surrounding it on three sides. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Later, my room had all the cheeriness of a dungeon and the appeal of a tomb. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The earliest preserved likenesses of Japan’s inhabitants are statues called baniwa, erected outside tombs around 1,500 years ago. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Bod wondered just how long ago you had to go back before the deepest tomb inside the hill was on a plain, and he knew it must have been an extremely long time ago. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z And now we were passing the hero's tomb and I recalled a visit there. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The whole room remained silent as a tomb. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z She focused on her feet, on keeping upright as she bounded down the stairs, making for the landing below, illuminated by moonlight leaking from the tomb. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Harry had no answers: There were moments when he wondered whether it had been outright madness not to try to prevent Voldemort breaking open the tomb. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “And before long, the location of the tomb will be common knowledge.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z They had found an ancient Martian tomb yard. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z When he entered her, she screamed loud enough to wake Baelor the Blessed in his tomb, and her nails left gouges in his back. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z As in the fusion with Mercer, everyone ascended together or, when the cycle had come to an end, fell together into the trough of the tomb world. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z When the project was complete, I came up against an unexpected obstacle: I was unable to transfer Rosa to the new tomb because the del Valle family objected. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The engineers are figuring out how to arrange the cardboard dividers inside our tomb to make chambers. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “But nobody’s ever found her tomb,” says Michael. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Feeling discomfited in a way he could not remember having felt before, Bod made his way back to the Owenses’ tomb, and was pleased to see both of his parents waiting for him beside it. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z He knew quite well that only one thing could lure Gebu from the prospect of free barley beer: the gold of the tombs. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z She told them about digging for tombs, and she told them about the beautiful princess Sit Hat-Hor Yunet whose jewelry they would see in another room. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The quiet of the ages returned to the tomb. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z It looked like it could’ve been part of a Greek tomb, with bronze torch holders fastened to the walls. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Papa Legba’s words were street, block, house, door, soul, tomb, and doom. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The remaining papers had to be “grouped, described, labeled, indexed, and reverently dispatched to their sealed tombs in the government vaults.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z In the graveyard, he saw as the dead see, and no tomb or grave or crypt was truly dark to him. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z By consulting the module map, I was able to locate the exact spot in the cliff where the entrance to the tomb was supposed to be buried. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Without a fire in the hearth, the massive, wood-paneled room was as cold as a tomb. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Robert laughed, the sound rattling among the tombs and bouncing from the vaulted ceiling. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The tombs of the pharaohs and of Alexander the Great himself served as constant reminders of the heights she could hope to achieve. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z When I was younger I pretended this teapot tomb was a genie’s lamp. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Wherefore I beseech thee, Sir Lancelot, to return again unto this realm and see my tomb, and pray some prayer more or less for my soul. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Afraid so. When I heard about the Sixers this morning, I decided to hide an uplink camera in some trees near the tomb entrance, to keep an eye on the area.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He paused beside a pillar, before the tomb of a long- dead Stark. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Puffs of conversation broke the silence of their tomb. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z If I couldn’t reach the tomb on my own, I didn’t deserve to reach it at all. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Finally, he decided that even if these shards lacked the golden splendor of Egyptian tombs, they nonetheless had a certain historical value. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The doghouse was a small, sealed cell like a dark, frozen, airless tomb. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z When Bran looked up, his little brother was standing in the mouth of Father's tomb. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z But I had no way of knowing if the same was true of this tomb, because it was underground, and it didn’t even appear on the planet map. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z To get to where the mummies were, you had to go down this very narrow sort of hall with stones on the side that they'd taken right out of this Pharaoh's tomb and all. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z The library was like a tomb, illumined from within by a chill fluorescent light that, by contrast, made the afternoon seem colder and grayer than it was. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z If he could think his father’s ba sometimes fluttered out of the tomb by night on its little bird wings and came to see if all was well with him... The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z It was made of white marble, just like Dumbledore’s tomb, and this made it easy to read, as it seemed to shine in the dark. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Groaning loudly, Bronwyn picked up the stone slab that topped Christopher Wren’s tomb and dropped it back in place. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z You could see stones and tombs and vaults and memorial plaques. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z It was at that time that they built a fortress of reinforced concrete over the faded tomb of José Arcadio, so that the corpse's smell of powder would not contaminate the waters. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The mantel was inscribed with a name, like a tomb. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “You were the first to find the tomb’s hiding place, so we owe you our gratitude for leading us to it.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z But we can’t let this room sit here like a tomb. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “You’re quite an Egyptologist. And the other is a bit of marble facing from the wall of a tomb.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Hie air was colder than a tomb, and more still. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The room was as silent as a tomb; it took in the outdoor noises and sealed them inside itself. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I think of this syrup tin as an ancient artifact, like something dug up out of a tomb. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z John Root lies nearby, as do the Palmers, Louis Sullivan, Mayor Harrison, Marshall Field, Philip Armour, and so many others, in vaults and tombs that vary from the simple to the grand. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “I stole the wand from its last master’s tomb! I removed it against its last master’s wishes! Its power is mine!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I studied the map of the tomb and the descriptions of its many rooms. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “The very essence of the tomb, as Theodora points out. The cold spot in Borley Rectory only dropped eleven degrees,” he went on complacently. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z The new tombs gave a festive air to the pathetic little graveyard, and they planted rows of birches so there would be shade for those who came to visit their dead. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “I explored a magnificent tomb of a royal family.” I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z Some people believed the tomb of Jesus was at a different location. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Inside, the small room was dark as a tomb. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I was surprised how they tried to make everything look like an old imperial city or an emperor’s tomb. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z His limbs they gathered and placed in a tomb at the foot of Mount Olympus, and there to this day the nightingales sing more sweetly than anywhere else. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “Miss Wren meant this menagerie to be an ark, but gradually it’s become a tomb.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Van Helsing stepped out, and, obedient to his gesture, we all advanced too; the four of us ranged in a line before the door of the tomb. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z If you want to know the truth, the guy I like best in the Bible, next to Jesus, was that lunatic and all, that lived in the tombs and kept cutting himself with stones. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Not only was this tomb not finished, not even begun, but its owner, Pharaoh’s Master of Storehouses, was still very much alive. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z But Isabel takes my hand and says in earnest, “Ophelia, you shall be my priest, for you are as secret as an effigy on a tomb.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The tainted air is reminiscent of a tomb. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z This is the house with the door with the soul with the tomb that doesn’t spell doom. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z That classroom sounded like a tomb after she read. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z During our World History lesson that morning, Mr. Avenovich loaded up a stand-alone simulation so that our class could witness the discovery of King Tut’s tomb by archaeologists in Egypt in AD 1922. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The theater was hollow, empty, like a tomb with phantoms crawling gray and black on the vast screen. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The has of the dead fluttered out of their tombs and across the dark face of Egypt, revisiting the places they had known in life. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z They were far more highly prized than any other objects that were brought out of the tombs, because private collectors and a few foreign museums paid very handsomely for them. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He slipped around the side of the tomb. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The doctor’s schedule is supposedly full, but the room is completely empty, silent as a tomb. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z He slipped out of the tomb into the gathering dusk. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z He agreed with enthusiasm to spend the feast day with his two friends, from dawn to dark, and thought no more of tombs or goblets until they parted on the thoroughfare. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z “Are infants to be nut-crackered into their tombs, and is nobody to save them?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z It was bare and sandy and full of tombs and relics and Egyptians and I didn’t fancy it at all. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “That scroll on the lower shelf, the plan of the judge's tomb. Fetch it. Hurry.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z As she closed Dill’s front door behind her, it felt like rolling a stone over the entrance of a tomb. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z And Lazlo was surprised by the strength of his gratitude—to be believed, even by a tomb raider from a family of assassins. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z They were making a straight line for Raphael’s tomb, and all three were glaring at Leo. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Lining the walls were different shrines and statues and tombs and stuff. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The place was deserted and as quiet as a tomb. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He glanced back over his shoulder at the tomb. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “So much for keeping the tomb’s location a secret,” I said, shaking my head. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Parzival unintentionally tipped me off about the tomb’s location, too. I never thought to look for it on Ludus, either, until his name appeared on the Scoreboard.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “We can’t. This room has a dark, broken soul. It would be like eating in an Egyptian tomb.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The room went silent as a tomb, all right. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Here there’d be no walls to climb, no houses to shelter in, no tomb lids to close behind us. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “Blood ties can’t be broken,” she whispered, and then vanished, her words echoing in the silent tomb. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z In a very short time they had accumulated all sorts of fascinating facts about tombs and temples, pharaohs and pyramids, mummies and monoliths, and dozens of other exotic topics. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z She also started construction on her royal tomb, following the Ptolemaic tradition. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Bod woke the next afternoon in the Owenses’ tomb feeling like he knew a huge secret, that he had done something important, and was burning to talk about it. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z His teeth were long and yellow, his tail a spiked lash, his eyes the color of tombs. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The walls of the corridor leading into the tomb were covered with dozens of strange paintings depicting enslaved humans, orcs, elves, and other creatures. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Behind this common burial ground the rough face of the cliff was honeycombed with the better tombs of artisans and scribes and merchants, carved into the rock itself. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z As I continued deeper into the tomb, I obtained several magic items along the way. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z No stone or tomb marks the grave of Herman Webster Mudgett, alias H. H. Holmes. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Loving Shakespeare as she did, she felt as “an archeologist would have, when he suddenly realized after years of digging that he was inside the tomb of a great pharaoh.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The desperate Astapori had pulled him from his tomb, clapped him into armor, and tied him onto a horse in hopes of giving heart to their Unsullied. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Poppy had talked about going one day, but they got sidetracked into visiting the tomb of Lazarus instead. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z All tomb plans were similar in design, but he could now tell one from another by recognizing some detail. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z "Well, only to the edge, and then doubled back. I sent the wolves on to make a trail, but we hid in Father's tomb." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Inside would be tombs, or perhaps something less pleasant. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z At the suggestion of a blind Christian she was once taken by train to kiss the tombs of saints and martyrs. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The crypt continued on into darkness ahead of them, but beyond this point the tombs were empty and unsealed; black holes waiting for their dead, waiting for him and his children. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Had he thought that the Dark Lord would be scared to violate his tomb? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z There was no path through the forest, so I kept the map in the corner of my display and followed it to the skull-topped hill that marked the tomb entrance. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z They had also stationed a team of high-level wizards around the tomb. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “How did the Sixers know to look for the tomb on Ludus? Did someone tip them off?” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Shine your light on top of the tomb, please!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z This is the tomb world and I am in it again, but this time you’re not here, too. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “You look like the effigy of a young knight asleep on his tomb,” she said, carefully tracing the well-cut profile defined against the dark stone. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z They seemed to be circling closer, like they were trying to sneak up on Raphael’s tomb without it noticing. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z And then the kitchen became as silent as the tomb. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z This morning, the Mancinis drove out to the beach for the day to see the kids, so it has been like a tomb around here. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Once they were gone, I seriously thought about kicking my way out of that miserable wooden tomb. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z At the tomb of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “I think I know who's buried in the Archduke Franz Ferdinand's tomb, and I don't think it's the Archduke.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z It looks like a tomb made for djab—angry spirits that haunt the night. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z His wife stretched on the bed, uncovered and cold, like a body displayed on the lid of a tomb, her eyes fixed to the ceiling by invisible threads of steel, immovable. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe when you deteriorate back down the ladder of evolution as I have, when you sink into the tomb world slough of being a special—well, best to abandon that line of inquiry. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z But with a few hours of freedom ahead of her, she brought as many of them with her as possible as she locked the door to her bedroom and slipped into the tomb. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Now, you good sweet mothers, symbols of Mother Mary at the tomb, kneel and pray for your sons, your only sons,” the preacher chanted. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z They stood shoulder to shoulder, trying to look casual, like it was completely natural for two teenaged guys to hang around Raphael’s tomb. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Dozens of migrants, children among them, emerge from the bushes, from behind the ceiba trees, and from among the tombs. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Before I began to restore these women to their dead selves through my awful work, I laid in Dracula’s tomb some of the Wafer, and so banished him from it, Un-Dead, for ever. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Olga kept this sealed up and buried like an ancient tomb. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Then the band played, and Tea Cake rode like a Pharaoh to his tomb. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z “Nose tombs” in Japan still contain the noses cut off of 20,000 Koreans and brought to Japan as trophies of a 16th-century Japanese invasion of that country. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “No, I don’t think so. He just lived there. She even pointed out the tomb he lived in. So I suppose he was a ghost. Do you remember, love?” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z If we don’t clean up and protect our earth, spring may grow as quiet as Juliet’s tomb.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z Ancient sources talk about his perishing at sea for his impiety, or alternatively, say that the brotherhood banished him and constructed a tomb for him, expelling him from the world of human beings. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I cursed the carpenter who had built this tomb. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “I mean, I knew someone else would find this place eventually. Just not this quickly. I’ve had this tomb all to myself for a while now.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The eerie silence gave him the creeps, as if they’d just opened up a recently laid tomb. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Never mind that the man for whom it had been built was still living, the Cloudspire was a royal tomb, and all manner of luxuries had already been laid in for the king’s postmortal comfort. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z But then I could just return to the tomb and try again. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He gave his hateful mother and her soft man a tomb together, and proclaimed the funeral day a festal day for all the Argive people. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He remembered wondering what it would have been like to witness Jesus roll the stone away from Lazarus’s tomb and watch the dead man walk out, still wearing his grave clothes. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z She planted her hands on the edge of the tomb lid and began to push, and it slid open with a slow, grating rumble. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z I, too, could live on the edge of the desert, near my father’s tomb. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z In the daytime, a ray of sunlight shone into the tomb, making all the dust motes she stirred up swirl like falling snow. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z It was graced with broad avenues thirty meters wide, elegant architecture and statuary, Alexander’s monumental tomb, and an enormous lighthouse, the Pharos, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The tomb was smaller than usual—only the top half of the deceased person lay inside. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He turned his face West and trotted towards the tombs. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z He went back to the Owenses’ tomb, but found it also deserted: neither his father nor Mistress Owens was anywhere to be seen. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities posted information about the site on Facebook and Twitter, and invited foreign dignitaries and journalists to tour the tomb on Saturday. Egypt Unveils Dozens of Newly Discovered Mummies 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Cloaked in obscurity for 3,000 years, his tomb was unsealed by Howard Carter at a time when the valley was believed to hold no surprises. A Nile Journey Guided by 19th-Century Women 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z As for his tomb — an easy-to-miss niche with a statue of the Virgin, modest and vague, presiding over the glassed-in coffin — you can view it here. In the Virtual (and Actual) Footsteps of Raphael 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z It was as if Fincher were trying to seal his audience up in a very lovely, very cold tomb. David Fincher, the Unhappiest Auteur 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z Now Vinceti is aiming for Leonardo da Vinci, hoping the custodians of his tomb will let him in to create a facial reconstruction of the Renaissance polymath. The mystery of Caravaggio's death solved at last ? painting killed him 2010-06-16T21:21:00Z But they work as an ensemble, which is what most of the art here was meant to do, the clearest example being the reassembled tomb in the second gallery. Art Review: ‘Theater, Life, and the Afterlife’ at China Institute 2012-05-31T22:11:08Z There are giant Egyptian-style statues guarding a replica tomb, and a huge colosseum used for the filming of Gladiator. 10 of the best film studio tours around the world 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z Variations of the design are found on Egyptian tombs, ancient Chinese buildings and sculptures, and Mayan carvings. This pattern keeps popping up in design, and it’s even older than it sounds 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z Human sacrifice wasn’t uncommon, as Ruz gruesomely discovered outside Pakal’s tomb, but ritual blood offerings that didn’t kill the subject were more frequent. Mexico’s mysterious Mayan ruins at Palenque, now accessible from the air But Google produced an infinity, or so it seemed, of images of ornate tombs in shadowy alcoves, armour and memorials, bare-boned death's-heads pompously crowned. The Emperor's Tomb by Joseph Roth – review 2013-01-25T20:00:01Z Pilgrims took this manna home in little bottles or used rags to sop up the moisture that dripped from the saint’s tomb in its subterranean crypt. Never mind the fat guy at the North Pole: Tell your children about the real St. Nick 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z A portion of the exhibit space has been dedicated to the story of Howard Carter, the archaeologist who discovered King Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings in 1922. King Tut's treasures return to Seattle beginning May 24 2012-05-17T16:49:04Z Nevertheless, for an actor who ascended playing comical pretty boys, Reynolds belies neither as an unknown fate unfolds in his uniquely stylized tomb. 'Buried': An agonizing, ingenious experience from inside a box 2010-09-30T20:43:00Z In China, to take one example, the many marvelous frescoes being discovered in ancient tombs are so susceptible to light and moisture damage that they are accessible only to scholars and scientists. Art Review: Adding Bells and Whistles to Leonardo 2010-12-05T22:48:00Z In the final scene Mary visits the tomb of Yeshua, who reappears not in the resurrected flesh but as a ghost. Music Review: Mark Adamo’s Opera Makes a Wife of Mary Magdalene 2013-06-20T22:14:00Z Castor oil seeds, a purgative, were found in ancient Egyptian tombs. The coronavirus reminds us of our deep-rooted need for medicinal plants 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z There are apparent references to the 2016 Met Gala: “Arm in a cast at the museum gala/ Fork in my purse to take home to my mother/ Supermodels all dancing ‘round a pharaoh’s tomb.” Review | Lorde returns with ‘Solar Power,’ but it’s mostly just wind 2021-08-22T04:00:00Z Inside the tomb, a small oil lamp burns continuously, the fuel a gift from the exiled poet’s guilt-ridden hometown, Florence. Ravenna, Italy, Glittering Still 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z It is best known for its monumental colonnades, temples and tomb complexes, many of which remain standing. Smithsonian Displays Ancient Artwork From City Threatened by ISIS 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z These fragile, dry collars are as amazing as Tut’s gold death mask: they show the swift passage of time, just as the tomb finds defy it. Exhibition Review: King Tut Reigns at the Discovery Center and the Met 2010-04-22T22:18:00Z The tomb was built for a man named Tutu and his wife, and is one of seven discovered in the area last October, when authorities found smugglers digging illegally for artefacts, officials said. Finely painted Ptolemaic tomb unveiled in Egypt 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z But the tomb was important for other reasons, too. Pompeii Moves With the Times 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z Around 50 mummified animals, including mice and falcons, were also recovered from the tomb. Finely painted Ptolemaic tomb unveiled in Egypt 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z The interior of the colonnade is an open tomb. Van Gogh to Kandinsky; Edvard Munch: Graphic Works; Picasso and Modern – review 2012-08-04T23:05:38Z One week the professor was an archaeologist who claimed to have discovered “the secret of Titten-Totten’s tomb.” Sid Caesar, Comedian and One of TV’s First Stars, Dies at 91 2014-02-12T22:07:12Z The dervishes, dressed in long white robes symbolizing shrouds, black cloaks symbolizing tombs and long headgear symbolizing tombstones, then rise from the ground to salute each other. AP PHOTOS: Whirling dervish ritual honors Sufi mystic poet 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z Thousands of artifacts like the kylix were found in tombs, perhaps intended for use in the afterlife. The Kylix Marvel: Why Experts Distrust the Story of an Ancient Cup’s Rebirth 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z In the early nineteen-twenties, while teaching at Howard University, Locke read about the discovery of the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun and decided that he should be present for its excavation. The Best Facts I Learned from Books in 2018 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z They are all that remain of a high-status individual who was originally buried in a stone tomb that was destroyed by the foundations of the AD1220 Norman minster. York Minster discoveries shine light on period between Romans and Vikings 2013-02-06T15:05:03Z For many minutes, the sole sound was of those chains grating as the lid was lowered over the tomb. Who Stays Gone, and Who Can Afford to Return 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z An English visitor to Akbar’s tomb on the outskirts of Agra, in the 1600s, described its huge garden as full of fruiting trees — oranges, apples, mangoes, bananas and figs. The real magic of the Taj Mahal 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Ancestors are revered in China, and historically, that means bodies should be buried and family members should have a tomb to visit. 7 things you can do with your dead body 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z On his fields, with views of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Henry has built huge, dry stone walls and embedded sheepfolds in them; a hillside tomb to hide the pool pump; and a stone circle. In ‘Galileo’s Torch,’ unlikely group of Washingtonians debate issue that resonates The reading occurs in front of a wooden structure — it represents Jesus’s tomb — that Aaron and others help decorate with flowers. For Easter the Eastern Orthodox way, fasting comes before feasting 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z The tomb of Dr. Smith and the scorpions, all under a velvet silent sky pulsing with thousands of stars, was definitely spectral. West of Key West, an Under-the-Radar National Park 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z Like the inscription on the tomb of the unknown soldier, it celebrates noble obscurity, but its resonant memorial would not, of course, exist without language and literacy. Poem of the week: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray 2011-01-17T10:17:14Z You hesitated, the way you did when, in a church, you were about to tread on a tomb slab. Carl Andre’s Epic Sculptures, United at Dia:Beacon 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z What do you want people to think about when they approach the tomb? At the Tomb of the Unknowns, a guard draws greater appreciation after war 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z A pet tortoise expires after being painted gold and studded with jewels, and its carapace becomes “its metallic and gemmate tomb.” Hanging With the Wits and Dandies of the Belle Époque 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z Portraits were for kings, popes, saints and other luminaries higher up in the cosmic food chain, and their images were meant for official, more or less public display at sites like churches and tombs. Art Review: ?Renaissance Portrait From Donatello to Bellini? - Review 2011-12-22T23:31:48Z In another tomb in Holmul, the remains of a middle-aged person were found, accompanied by vessels and jade ornaments. Archaeologists discover pre-Columbian tombs in Guatemala 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z The show’s final sections include many other examples of hero-cult activity, mainly small votives and large reliefs that were placed at tombs or shrines. Art Review: Those Greek Heroes, Sometimes Behaving Badly 2010-10-21T20:45:00Z A stroke of luck spared the tomb from being picked clean by grave robbers. Behold, King Tut, in All His Majesty and Mystery 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Shaw's long, skinny body could be a medieval tomb carving, apart from the hints in the shadows of a 20th-century background. George Bernard Shaw photographs uncover man behind myth 2011-07-05T12:25:40Z “The letter, how they miss each other, how they get to the tomb: Those don’t seem to be relevant in the opera.” A New Take on Romeo and Juliet’s Ball, Balcony, Bed and Tomb 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z Evelyn-White, a British archaeologist, visited King Tut's tomb and may have helped excavate the site. 9 Victims of King Tut's Curse (And One Who Should Have Been) 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z But how does he compare with that other famous tomb hoarder? Tony Curtis and Tutankhamun: coffin hoarders 2010-10-06T19:00:00Z Distinguished by its radiant gold dome, the former veterans hospital of Les Invalides is home to Paris’s sprawling army museum and Napoleon’s tomb. 100 years later: Returning to World War I’s Western Front in France 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z In the blazing “Resurrection,” Jesus doesn’t so much rise as erupt from his tomb, aided by buff angels with wings of lacerating white stripes. 3 Days, 150 Paintings: A Whirlwind Tintoretto Tour 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Archaeologists have so far this year excavated a number of relics that include a 4,400-year-old tomb at the Giza plateau and an ancient necropolis in Minya, south of Cairo. Egypt uncovers mummy burial site near Great Pyramids 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z The frieze, perhaps a minimalist reference to the Corinthian style, was part of a tomb in the vast Nabatean burial ground, which was added to the Unesco World Heritage list in 2008. Saudi Arabia's pre-Islamic treasures come to the Louvre 2010-08-10T13:00:00Z Thousands of artifacts salvaged from the Titanic’s watery tomb in the North Atlantic will be sold in a winner-take-all auction scheduled for April, the centennial of the luxury liner’s sinking, The Associated Press reported. ArtsBeat Blog: Huge Trove of Titanic Artifacts to Be Auctioned 2011-12-29T18:05:24Z They may place pebbles or candles on the tomb and leave messages on slips of paper. How to feel the spirit at pilgrimage sites in Europe 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z Another bronze vessel in the princess’s tomb looks back to 13th century B.C. types. Review: Groundbreaking Picture of China 2010-11-19T12:36:00Z The only props on stage were a few wooden boxes, including a long rectangular one that later served as a table for the Last Supper, a tomb for Jesus and more. Berlin Philharmonic Performs 'St. Matthew Passion' at the Park Avenue Armory 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z It is called a “passage mound” or “passage tomb,” but what is it really? Jane Smiley Explores Ancient Ireland’s Mysterious Tombs 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z The items from King Tut’s tomb are the stars of the exhibit, including dazzling masks and beguiling, lively shabti statuettes of people to serve him in the afterlife. King Tut artifacts shine at Pacific Science Center exhibit 2012-12-20T00:00:10Z At points of interest — such as the amphitheater, monastery, royal tombs and treasury — users experienced life-size 3-D models and panoramic photos. The future of ‘extended reality’ tourism is now, thanks to the pandemic 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z Sitting there in that veritable tomb eating what seemed to be a pretty delicious meal, with many appealing side dishes, what did the Beeman family discuss? ArtsBeat: ‘The Americans’ Recap: It’s Dark, It’s Raining, It’s Ugly Out There 2014-04-03T03:01:06Z For a nation on the brink of war and facing its own "dark age," the Sutton Hoo ship burial was a source of pride and inspiration, equivalent to the tomb of Tutankhamun. "The Dig" on Netflix: a refreshingly accurate portrayal — according to an archaeologist 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z The palais is a manic fusion of biblical characters, animal gatherings, Egyptian tombs, stucco arches, grottos, fairies, fountains, popular sayings and classical columns. 10 of Europe’s oddest attractions and events 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z Barefoot pilgrims walk an even more vertical path there, culminating in a dark, rock-hollowed room in the monastery housing the tomb of St. Basil, where a priest blessed each visitor individually. Returning to Montenegro 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z His tomb became, and for some still is, a pilgrimage destination. Entombing Lenin’s tomb: “Black Square” and the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z Franz does not know what to do, but in the end heads for the Kapuzinergruft, the emperor's tomb, accompanied by a dog he doesn't like. The Emperor's Tomb by Joseph Roth – review 2013-01-25T20:00:01Z Police also recovered other objects from the tomb dig, including a bronze helmet and various ceramic bowls. ArtsBeat: Italian Police Recover Trove of Etruscan Antiquities 2013-06-27T18:34:04Z The objects crammed into his tomb were both aesthetically pleasing and practical, including a golden chariot meant to speed his spirit, or ka, to its next destination, known in Egyptian cosmology as Duat. Behold, King Tut, in All His Majesty and Mystery 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z We walked through vaulted passages, sumptuous royal apartments, galleries hung with paintings, past row after row of white marble tombs that held the bones of princes, each with a Latin epitaph. Spanish capital en ruinas 2013-02-19T16:42:00Z There are also breathless newspaper accounts echoing the excitement over the 1922 discovery of Tutankhamen’s tomb in Egypt. Review: ‘From Ancient to Modern’ Ponders the Origins of Sumerian Artifacts 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z The mound where the tomb was discovered lies in the ancient city of Amphipolis, about 200 miles north of Athens. Alexander the Great’s Legacy Stirred Up by Excavation 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z And given the $760 million face-lift to the 236-year-old grand dame you can almost hear the czars applauding from their tombs. 45 Places to Go in 2012 2012-01-06T17:44:12Z In addition to human remains, the largest tomb contained metal objects as well as ceramic and wooden dishes. Archaeologists discover 15th century indigenous tombs in Bolivia 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z We see rubbings of tombs and paintings of ruined cathedrals. Critic?s Notebook: ?Making History? and ?Remembering Shakespeare? at Yale 2012-03-22T22:50:43Z Funerary sculpture was important in the Middle Ages, Ms. Carlier said: “You planned your tombs when you were still alive, and you chose your artists carefully.” For Those Attending TEFAF, Art Outweighs a Robbery 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Someone mentioned an elite Army unit known as the Old Guard, whose special duties include standing watch 24/7, year-round, at the famous tomb overlooking Washington, D.C. Soldier joins elite group guarding Tomb of the Unknowns around-the-clock 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z Climbing up a steep, rock-rutted trail, we stopped to inspect large stone tombs with curved lids and posed for group pictures against ancient crumbling walls. In Turkey, Adventure Travel Takes the Plunge 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z Recent reports of the script for 2016’s The Mummy has the story centered around Navy Seal Tyler Colt and his mission to find terrorists hidden in a bunker that ends up being a tomb. Universal's 2016 'Mummy' Reboot Set In The Iraqi Desert Might Be Cursed 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Here, then, he describes a different kind of voice rising from the tomb. What Jacques Derrida Understood About Friendship 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Angels soar on high, columns and arches reach up in a fantastic forest of stone, and the tombs lie tranquil, their inhabitants apparently assured of paradise. Statement of faith: Gloucester Cathedral shows the Black Death didn't shake medieval Britain's belief 2012-08-13T11:36:35Z But it still feels monumental, like wandering through King Tut's tomb if King Tut happened to be a hoarder of television sets and police badges. I gave my heart away at Graceland 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z Pakal’s own tomb sits deep within an adjacent pyramid, called the Temple of the Inscriptions. Mexico’s mysterious Mayan ruins at Palenque, now accessible from the air He said six chariots were found at Tutankhamen’s tomb, some for ceremonies, some for hunting and one lighter and faster than the rest for war. King Tutankhamen's military chariot moved to new Egyptian museum 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z Temporary and permanent exhibitions on three levels include the famous golden mask, among the 5,300 objects excavated from the tomb of Tutankhamen, the “boy king” who died at age 19 in 1325 B.C. Can Architecture Build Values, Too? 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Barring a miracle, it will be humanity’s final tomb. ‘Biosphere’ Review: It’s the End of the World (and They Caused It) 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z It must first be restored, then a decision taken on whether to put it back on Horner's tomb or in a Livorno museum. Italians unveil long-lost tomb medallion of Scottish MP 2013-05-18T11:39:00Z The lengthened itineraries, on three ships with 40 or fewer cabins, visit sites like the rock tombs of Beni Hassan and the Valley of the Kings. In Transit Blog: To Egypt or Not to Egypt? 2013-02-06T16:00:23Z This idea would explain why Tutankhanum’s tomb turns to the right, rather than the left, which is traditional for male tombs. 'We have never seen anything better' – the secrets of King Tut's tomb 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z From the 1880s to the early 1910s she ran a workshop in Greenwich Village and designed stained-glass windows, mosaics, tapestries, murals and tombs. Antiques: Rhode Island Americana, Mary Tillinghast and Byrdcliffe Art 2012-01-05T22:29:20Z I was in Juchitán recently and somebody said, “How is it possible? She is so famous, and look at her tomb.” Graciela Iturbide talks about going viral, L.A. cholos and shooting Frida Kahlo's bathroom 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z A famous example is Auguste Rodin, the French sculptor, who was inspired by Michelangelo’s unfinished works, specifically sculptural fragments of torsos and limbs and the “Slaves” originally planned for the tomb of Pope Julius II. Art Review: Works by Rachel Kneebone at the Brooklyn Museum 2012-04-05T22:06:34Z It begins on the morning of Good Friday, when women flock to their parish church to decorate the symbolic tomb, or coffin. In Greece, they do Easter with gusto 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z “We concluded, according to concrete results, that the slab which was adjoined to the bedrock of the tomb of Christ was of the Constantinean era.” Researchers date discovery of Christ's tomb in Jerusalem to Roman era 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z When archaeologists excavated Calakmul in the early 20th century, they uncovered the tomb of its greatest ruler, known as Jaguar Claw. The Return of the Jaguar 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z And it was not intended that the Tutankhamun treasure, though exceptionally lavish and made of gold, would be seen again by humans after it was deposited in the Egyptian king's tomb. Why make art no-one can see? 2012-07-02T15:40:59Z Elsewhere on display are three blue cups that were unearthed in a tomb together and then displayed in different museums; this is the first time in more than 100 years that they’ve been reunited. Rare Glassware on View at the Met 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Beefed up with 3D modelling by Harvard University, this is true vicarious travel, offering a tangible sense of one of the finest tombs in antiquity plus information and computer reconstructions at a click. Five-thousand-year-old Egyptian tomb opens for virtual tour 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z Among their finds was a carved Han Dynasty brick from a tomb, transformed into a lamp, and a 12th-century wood Guanyin. Bay Area Embrace 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The guards, longtime friends who served in the army together, are awaiting the dawn, when the tomb will be unveiled to the public. Review: ‘Guards at the Taj,’ Two Ordinary Guys Ordered to Do the Unthinkable 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z We stopped at the burial sites of significant figures in New York’s performance history and, every so often, stumbled across a kind of choreographed reincarnation, as dancers appeared atop tombs, among headstones, inside catacombs. ‘Crossing Over,’ a Performance in Green-Wood Cemetery 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z In Iraq and Syria, Sunni extremists like the Islamic State and others are deliberately wrecking shrines, statues, mosques, tombs and churches — anything they regard as idolatry. Unesco Condemns Destruction of 11th-Century Shrine in Iraq 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z And what an obstacle course it is, Beckett’s rutted path from womb to tomb. Review: Wrestling With a Master in ‘On Beckett’ 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z He expects more tombs to be found there. Egypt unveils 2,500-year-old mummy at forgotten cemetery 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z American Egyptologist Aaron Ember was friends with many of the people who were present when the tomb was opened, including Lord Carnarvon. 9 Victims of King Tut's Curse (And One Who Should Have Been) 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z The paintings depict scenes of mourning women and were hacked from the wall of a tomb by looters. New York Returns 142 Looted Artifacts to Italy 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z It’s more of a tomb than a grave, adorned for the afterlife with electronic accouterments, curved mirrors and history folding back upon itself. Drake and DaBaby Join Lil Yachty’s Shtick, and 8 More New Songs 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z Following their capture of the city in 2014, Islamic State went on a rampage, destroying many of Mosul’s ancient sites and artefacts, including a shrine believed by many to be Jonah’s tomb. In Mosul exhibition, Iraqi artists process brutal rule of Islamic... 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z Instead, he's drawn into a classic country-house mystery involving eccentric artists, a vandalized tomb and a modern-day murder aping the death of the tomb's resident. New in crime fiction: Benjamin Black and Jacqueline Winspear 2010-04-07T23:22:00Z Regalia from the richest unlooted tomb in the ancient Americas are among the first set of gold works displayed in the exhibit. For curators, the quest to build 'Golden Kingdoms' for Getty exhibit leads to stunning surprises 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z In Saqqara, site of the oldest pyramid in Egypt and a number of important tombs, padlocks on the tombs were broken but nothing was taken, Mr. Hawass said. Egypt?s Antiquities Chief Says Sites Are Secure 2011-02-01T23:00:23Z By focusing on the excavation rather than the contents of the tomb, the show manages to convey the thrill of unsealing a grave still stuffed with treasure. Finding the pharaoh 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Displayed are marble sarcophagi and tomb fragments from the fourth century, a boxed collection of Holy Land souvenir rocks assembled around 500, and a ninth-century lidded silver vessel made to hold St. Sebastian’s skull. Antiques: Shahn Art Collection and Home Are for Sale 2010-10-14T21:46:00Z In “Child’s Pose,” a drama with a story as cold, merciless and inevitable as a tomb, escape proves every bit as futile. Movie Review: ‘Child’s Pose,’ a Family Drama Set in Romania 2014-02-18T22:25:20Z Hawass, whom visitors may recognize from his appearances on archaeological documentaries, describes in a brief video his quest for the lost tomb of Cleopatra and her lover, the Roman general Mark Antony. Philly hosts world premiere of Cleopatra exhibit 2010-06-04T20:09:00Z Last summer at Dahshur, a site near the Giza pyramids, where armed tomb raiders were burrowing for treasure, Dr. Hanna’s tweets about the pillage drew archaeologists and local residents to the site in protest. Taking on Art Looters on Twitter 2014-04-09T21:43:37Z They include: Matthew 27:52—And the tombs broke open. The Walking Dead 'Crossed' Recap: Hot'n'Melty 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z It’s another kind of tomb song, this time for the motherland. Treating a Historic Massacre as an Active Crime Scene 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z One of the most spectacular tombs in the royal warren belonged to Seti I; it was known to Victorians as “Belzoni’s tomb.” A Nile Journey Guided by 19th-Century Women 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z It is notable for containing the tomb of the extinct Turbervilles, the “ancient and knightly” family on which Hardy modeled the d’Urbervilles in his most famous novel. On England’s Coast, Thomas Hardy Made His World 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z “This is like finding the Land of Oz or some lost tomb,” said Josh Karp, the author of a book about the movie to be published next year by St. Martin’s Press. Hollywood Ending Near for Orson Welles’s Last Film 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z Untangling the skein of regulations put in place by the Egyptian government to ensure that tomb looting never happens again. An 'Unconventional Archaeologist' in our midst 2010-07-09T22:46:00Z The museum provides a valuable introduction to the masterpieces contained in neighboring churches, baptisteries and tombs. Special Report: Decorative Arts: An Ancient Craft Gets a Bigger World Stage 2011-10-27T11:30:10Z Finally, the presence in the Morgan gallery of a bronze cast of the effigy made by Duveneck for Lizzie’s tomb — she died, suddenly, in 1888 — brings the story, told entirely through images, to a close. Henry James, a Poohbah Who Painted With Words 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z From a label you learn that this tomb guardian was considered so aggressive in his protective zeal that his legs were snapped off before burial lest he harm his human owner in the afterlife. In ‘African Origin’ Show at Met, New Points of Light Across Cultures 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z We hope that they see this tomb guard and look beyond him to the tomb. At the Tomb of the Unknowns, a guard draws greater appreciation after war 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z It was held in a vast white cube that had been erected on one side of the Hôtel National des Invalides, practically at the doorstep of Napoleon’s tomb. In Paris, Dior, San Laurent and Their New Designers 2012-10-03T22:25:55Z And even before that, literally from the night he was killed, he became a wonderworking cult object and his cathedral tomb a magnet for pilgrimage. Art Review: Stained Glass at the Cloisters 2014-02-28T00:07:01Z With glittering treasures from ancient tombs and decrepit monuments to a difficult 20th century, it’s a surprising land. Underappreciated, and ripe for a visit: Bulgaria 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Ariyon Bakare's anguished King is less an inspirational leader than a tired, lonely man receiving terrible presentiment that this cheap motel room is to be his tomb. The Mountaintop ? review 2011-03-23T17:42:45Z Even more unusually, while still in his 30s, the artist spent a large sum of money securing a marble tomb inside the Pantheon in Rome, where he is buried. For Britain’s National Gallery, a Raphael Show Comes at the Right Time 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z "It looks like the tomb of a prominent Macedonian of that era," said a second culture ministry official, declining to be named. Greece says vast, significant ancient tomb unearthed in north 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z I’ve been in charge of soldiers who guard the tomb for about 18 months. At the Tomb of the Unknowns, a guard draws greater appreciation after war 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z In one of the rooms in the tomb, archaeologists found a collection of figurines, wooden masks and a handle of a sarcophagus lid. Egypt discovers 3,000-year-old tomb of nobleman 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z And yes, this time around Croft will be questing her way into tombs – lots of them. 'Rise of the Tomb Raider' is a tale of 'woman versus wild' 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z For example, burning incense in tombs to worship the gods was fundamental in ancient Egypt. The Rise of Incense 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z Egyptologists now see the Bent Pyramid as a critical step toward the building of a strictly pyramidal tomb. A Refreshing Look at Egypt’s Ancient Pyramids 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z Such transformative historic moments as Mary Magdalene’s recognition that the tomb of Jesus is empty, and her subsequent encounter with his resurrected form, are neither physically direct nor emotionally sublime. “Mary Magdalene,” Reviewed: A Sludgy, Trivial Attempt at Revisionist Christian History 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z But the tombs revere Sufi saints, and the Islamist rebels who have taken over Timbuktu regard such saint-cults as idolatrous. Will anyone save Timbuktu from Islamist tomb raiders? 2012-07-02T11:56:11Z The tomb chamber houses the emperor and his bride in highly decorated sarcophagi of marble and pietra dura, fashioned into exquisite floral patterns and calligraphy of Koranic script. The real magic of the Taj Mahal 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z But the galleries are unfinished — including those for virtually all 5,000 objects found in Tut’s tomb, the project’s chief tourism lure. How good is the King Tut exhibition? An art critic weighs in 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z Under questioning, the tomb raider led them to the site, where excavations will start today. Caligula's tomb found after police arrest man trying to smuggle statue 2011-01-17T20:10:34Z In Morrison’s view, elite institutions weren’t tombs to preserve old educational traditions. Toni Morrison’s former students reflect: ‘She had this physical presence, this voice, that just took up space in this very magical way’ 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z My corner chamber with king bed, topped with a red crown-emblazoned pillow and padded headboard, was quiet as Tutankhamun’s tomb, an effect enhanced by blackout shades. We’ll Never Be Royals, But ... 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z Italian officials argued for years that the vase had been stolen by tomb robbers from a grave near Rome. Oscar White Muscarella, Museum ‘Voice of Conscience,’ Dies at 91 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z The tombs had been vandalized and forgotten, and were now blanketed by enormous mounds of thick ivy. Next Stop: Uncovering Charms in Montenegro’s Capital 2013-09-05T13:01:37Z And what about Michelangelo’s two marble nude Slaves, commissioned as part of a grand tomb for Pope Julius II, and not quite finished? | The Louvre Less Traveled 2011-09-27T22:00:14Z In the end, though, obliged by poverty in old age “to pawn my tomb,” as he lamented, the memoirs appeared soon after he died in 1848, at the age of 79, in Paris. The French Revolution Made Him an Exile, and a Writer 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z But my attraction is not to the architecture, but to the collection of royal tombs. Essay: In Europe, Sharing Moments With History 2012-10-10T20:43:02Z Certainly as you watch “Samsara” various themes emerge from the images of ancient ruins and abandoned modern houses and modest burial grounds and tombs of the formerly great. Pick of the week: A dazzling world tour of birth and death 2012-08-24T01:00:00Z The mummified beetles were among artifacts found in seven tombs discovered over the past six months on the edge of the King Userkaf pyramid complex at the ancient necropolis of Saqqara, south of Cairo. Ancient Egyptian tombs yield rare find of mummified scarab beetles 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z The new film imagines Lara’s life before she began raiding all those tombs — and before the best-selling video games, the two feature films starring Ms. Jolie, and the comics, novelizations and animated series. In the New ‘Tomb Raider,’ How Lara Croft Became Lara Croft 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z Even in California, the house became as cold as a tomb. Divorcing while pregnant 2013-01-16T01:00:00Z Back came the reply: ‘Our Lord is still in the tomb; I will not have it! We cannot have “hallelujah” sung in Salisbury Cathedral until the gladsome morn.’ Sir David Willcocks, Conductor Who Influenced British Choral Music, Dies at 95 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z A rectangular headstone of a tomb, one of many from the Tayma’ or Teima oasis in the eastern region, is believed to date from the fifth or fourth century B.C. Review: 'Routes of Arabia'' Exhibition at Louvre Is Startling 2010-07-23T11:56:00Z In the 16th century, a more elaborate tomb was erected to him and in 1599 Spenser was interred nearby, beginning the tradition of Poets' Corner. Ted Hughes joins literary greats at Poets' Corner 2010-03-23T06:00:00Z The tombs and memorials make up one of the most significant collections of monumental sculpture in the UK. BBC goes inside Westminster Abbey 2012-08-02T15:57:08Z “There may be other objects with it, if it came from a tomb. Without the place of discovery, it is impossible to reconstruct its historical context.” Oscar White Muscarella, Museum ‘Voice of Conscience,’ Dies at 91 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z For India’s Muslim rulers and their tomb gardens, native Hindu motifs were merged with Arabesque geometry and the floral patterns of local temples transposed with Koranic calligraphy. Review | A look at some of the most beautiful gardens in the world 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z In addition to mansion tours and the Museum and Education Center, it offers tours of Washington’s Distillery and Gristmill, gardens and groves and Washington’s tomb. Two Virginia estates central to George Washington’s life share little common ground 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z The eggs symbolize Christ’s tomb, and the cracking symbolizes his Resurrection. In Greece, they do Easter with gusto 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z In one animated spot, for a Trix-like cereal called Coconut Crunchos, three black kids visiting an Egyptian tomb playfully admonish a wolf for trying to steal their cereal. “Atlanta” and Vince Staples and a New Hip-Hop Sensibility 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z “When thieves hear of these exorbitant prices, they naturally plunder tombs to get more loot,” he said in the same interview. Oscar White Muscarella, Museum ‘Voice of Conscience,’ Dies at 91 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z It's a ruin, though there is an intact chapel where knights and ladies lie on their tombs. My best bit of historic Britain: historians' and authors' top tips 2012-08-17T21:45:07Z "There is no reason to believe those documents would survive or be kept in a tomb," he added. Crypt may yield Shakespeare clues 2011-07-28T13:11:01Z Our guide Elena is solemn when she points out the tombs – covered daily in fresh flowers – and describes their final bleak days in Ekaterinburg, where the family were killed by a Bolshevik firing squad. Searching for signs of the Soviets in St Petersburg 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z The first two of three sections include gold jewelry, formally austere pottery, glassware and other objects excavated from mound shaped, earth-covered tombs in the city of Gyeongju. Museum and Gallery Listings for Feb. 21-27 2014-02-21T00:13:41Z It is not the earliest or largest Mughal tomb, but it is recognized as the most beautiful, romantic and serene. The real magic of the Taj Mahal 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Also: a new tomb in Egypt ... an invaluable photographic archive of U.S. cities at the Library of Congress ... a quirky museum in El Segundo ... and a graceful new art building at Pomona College. Roundup: Koons in France, a museum in El Segundo, an art hall in Pomona 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z You could see where the guy just created his own tomb. John Goodman Was a Man Without a Series. Now He’s Everywhere. 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z They are on display alongside his original will and fragments of clothing taken from the King's tomb in 1797, when it was opened to verify that the King was buried there. Churchill Magna Carta plan revealed 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z There was me and the mummy fetus in the tomb of Amun-Hir-Khopshef, the princely son of Ramses III. Me and the mummified reptiles in the Crocodile Museum at the Temple of Kom Ombo. Tourists are trickling back to Egypt 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z These made Atkinson believe Stonehenge was built by a culture in contact with ancient Greece, whose chief wanted a dramatic tomb. David Attenborough's big dig 2010-10-25T21:01:00Z Only in the tomb scene does the production achieve divine lunacy. Theater Review: ‘The Mystery of Irma Vep’ Plays the Lucille Lortel Theater 2014-04-18T02:00:01Z Over the centuries, the ground above the tomb became a waste dump for workers on other archaeological digs, the inhabitant below lost. Behold, King Tut, in All His Majesty and Mystery 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z On Wednesday night at Dance Theater Workshop, Natalie Green’s “nerves like tombs, nerves like nettles,” seemed aptly named. Dance Review: What to Expect When Fairy Tales and Reality Are Just as Strange? 2011-02-05T00:03:32Z Though a castle has stood here since the 11th century, the highlight is Wawel Cathedral, which houses the tombs of the country’s greatest rulers and historic figures. Krakow: The heart and soul of Poland 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z Volcanic detritus swept over these beings, liquid eventually solidifying into tombs of stone. Exhibition Review: When the Dead Arise and Head to Times Square 2011-03-03T23:15:11Z Collins thinks it is partly due to when the tomb was found. Exhibition unwraps drama of Tutankhamun's discovery 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z Thankfully, Rumi’s tomb, in Turkey, has not met such a fate. Cultured Traveler: Thin Places, Where We Are Jolted Out of Old Ways of Seeing the World 2012-03-09T21:51:17Z The bones were actually entombed in a hollow in one of the four walls of the tomb, not in the cavity of the tomb itself. Relic hunter: A missing Christian relic, the fall of Nazi Germany and a mystery that flummoxed historians for centuries 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z Seneb was a dwarf, but smallness did not hold him back in life – as this fine work of art from his expensive tomb attests. Could this be the earliest portrait in history? 2011-02-09T14:29:36Z The ancestors of Jesus in the windows looked down on that tomb. Art Review: Stained Glass at the Cloisters 2014-02-28T00:07:01Z They closed the tomb that October to temporarily move the mummy — “an enormous undertaking,” he noted — and install new flooring and railings. Getty Completes Study of Paintings at King Tut’s Tomb 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z Egyptians carved the first stone tombs more than 4,000 years ago. Tomb of the Unknown Soldier marks 100 years of honoring unidentified war dead 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z Inside the tomb, believed to date to just decades before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that smothered Pompeii in A.D. 79., archaeologists had discovered one of the best preserved skeletons ever found. Pompeii Moves With the Times 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z The final section explores Wan Li’s tomb, known as Dingling, which he started constructing at age 20. Museums: China's Reluctant Emperor 2011-09-07T10:55:41Z In Rise of the Tomb Raider, Croft uses new skills, like learning languages and deciphering carvings, to complete the tombs, a touchstone of the series, and move forward. Lara Croft Has Company: More Female Heroes Appear in Big-Budget Games 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z He sneers at the rich, stocking the stony apartment with futile luxuries that give it the feel of a pharaoh’s tomb. ‘Inside’ Review: Tortured Artist, Meet Tortured Man 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z In Act II’s graveyard setting, she steps down from her tomb as a fleshly whirlwind, then grows more spectral, more a thing of spirit and mist, as the act progresses. Washington Ballet’s ‘Giselle’ marks company’s transformation 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z A large-brimmed black silk hat with a strap of fiber, wood, gold and semiprecious stones, excavated from a Yuan tomb, is the only known example of the type worn by Mongol emperors. NYC Exhibit Unveils Rich Treasures of Yuan Dynasty 2010-09-27T09:51:00Z Ashes were poured into a velvet urn bag, which was tied with a golden, tasselled rope and placed into a tomb. Unearthing Black History at Green-Wood Cemetery 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z It rests on top of the dark rectangle, which now might be read as the door of a tomb, opened onto blackness, oblivion. Art Review: ‘Jasper Johns: Regrets,’ a New Series at MoMA 2014-03-21T16:46:57Z As Lu Hongen, then the conductor of the Shanghai Symphony, was led off by the police in shackles, he asked his colleagues to lay flowers on the tomb of Beethoven. Chinese Composers With an Ear to the World 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z The other is that the tomb itself may pose a danger to excavators. ‘Terracotta Warriors’ exhibit makes grand entrance at Pacific Science Center 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z In the morning, I was too ill to visit more tombs and temples. A Nile Journey Guided by 19th-Century Women 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Tut is all about the tomb, the afterlife and desperate immortality — a fantastically grandiose and convoluted system that would help define Western civilization for the next several thousand years. How good is the King Tut exhibition? An art critic weighs in 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z The great thing about Tutankhamun's tomb will be the replica's quality. Your last chance to see Tutankhamun's tomb 2011-01-17T20:00:03Z She stressed that we are "one nation under God," and — remembering that — we need "to work together … and to love each other and regard human dignity, from the womb to the tomb." MLK Day preview: Alveda King tells Sen. Marsha Blackburn, 'We must be kind' 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z A gold pendant found in the unknown princess’s tomb represents the head of a man wearing a lion skin, the Herculean headdress. Art: Macedonia's Riches Before Alexander 2011-10-21T12:30:08Z Howard Carter, the archaeologist who discovered the tomb, gave a paperweight to his friend Bruce Ingham as a gift. 9 Victims of King Tut's Curse (And One Who Should Have Been) 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z It is a series for those who already share his affinities for pyramid symbols, secret societies, puzzles, missing artifacts, Washington tombs, underground labyrinths, stealth agendas of the founding fathers and so on. Television Review: Searching for Clues in History?s Nooks 2010-12-01T22:28:00Z What may seem unusual to contemporary viewers is that in medieval times, “Royals got three tombs: one for the body, one for the heart and one for entrails,” Ms. Carlier said. For Those Attending TEFAF, Art Outweighs a Robbery 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Inside the main space in the cathedral, in the same position it is described in the book, is the tomb of William Longespee, the 3rd Earl of Salisbury. Cornelia Funke and Salisbury cathedral: the power of place 2012-11-22T15:20:00Z The find near the Nile city of Luxor, is the tomb of Userhat, a judge from the New Kingdom. Egypt discovers 3,000-year-old tomb of nobleman 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z With most of Tutankhamun's treasures too fragile to travel from Cairo, the only items in the exhibition from the tomb are some watermelon seeds and almonds that were left to feed Tutankhamen for eternity. How 'Tut-mania' gripped the world 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z A companion tomb was built for Evita, but her family will not allow her body to move here, saying it has been on too many journeys since her death. Eva Per?n?s Buenos Aires 2012-03-09T21:57:43Z Alicia Vikander stars as Lara Croft, a bike courier in London who sets out on a quest to find a mythical tomb her father had been searching for before vanishing years ago. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Sorry to Bother You’ and ‘Baskets’ 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z “It’s a fascinating argument and an impressive first step,” says Kent Weeks, an American archaeologist who has minutely mapped the Valley of the Kings and in 1995 discovered the extent of its biggest known tomb. What lies beneath? 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z Last month archaeologists reached the outer wall of the tomb, which yielded two headless stone sphinxes. Ancient Greek Tomb Yields Two Large Statues 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z Eventually he turns to Mr. Dean and says: "Silent as a tomb." Extract: C by Tom McCarthy 2010-08-06T08:53:00Z He promises that the tomb, and two others, will close by the end of the year. Your last chance to see Tutankhamun's tomb 2011-01-17T20:00:03Z More than 100 artifacts — 50 from the tomb of the boy-king — will be displayed, including Tut's golden sandals and the ornate funeral mask of another ancient Egyptian ruler. Tutankhamun exhibit to arrive in Seattle in May 2012 2010-04-15T04:31:00Z At 1 p.m. on Monday, the Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves leads a gallery talk about the tomb’s history and the theory that it may house the mummy of Queen Nefertiti. Spare Times for Jan. 15-21 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Then I carved them so it was like tomb carvings. Home of Metal turns the Midlands up to 11 2011-07-10T20:30:02Z The new pieces at Alexander Gray are also monuments, but of a different kind: tombs. Siah Armajani: ‘The Tomb Series’ 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Over 3,000 years ago the craftsmen of Ramses III, while building the tombs of pharaohs in the Valley of the Kings, laid down their hammers and demanded more food. Reading Piketty on the Nile 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Ray Davies gets points for rhyming “June” with “gloom,” “tomb” and “doom” — no moons and spoons for this guy, thank you very much! Moons, Junes and 7 Summer Tunes 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z Lenin's tomb was designed by AV Shchusev, an architect involved in the constructivist movement and influenced by Kazimir Malevich, the founder of suprematism. Intimations of immortality 2011-01-08T00:05:59Z We are all born in a womb and end up in a tomb, I wrote down. Street of the Iron Po(e)t, Part XI 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z The tombs, he said, were for senior officials including regional rulers and palace supervisors in ancient Egypt. Egypt displays recently discovered ancient tombs in Saqqara 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z He viewed death as a kind of power nap, from which he’d awake refreshed in a tomb that was like an earthly home, but better, more fun. ‘Age of Empires’: How 2 Dynasties of Art Forged China’s Identity 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z After a tour of the chapel, stepping lightly on the tomb of Henry VIII, we were invited to view proceedings on a single unreliable television in a sweaty, dungeon-like turreted tower of Windsor Castle. The seven standout stories of 2018 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z The tombs were found near the Step Pyramid of Djoser, in the Saqqara Necropolis, 24 kilometers southwest of Cairo. Egypt displays recently discovered ancient tombs in Saqqara 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z In total contrast, an enormous wine urn, or krater, which was excavated in the same tomb, is a typical Greek model that displays a surprising Baroque tendency. Art: Macedonia's Riches Before Alexander 2011-10-21T12:30:08Z After working as a radio operator during the First World War, Serge is later taken to a German prison camp, escapes, and eventually ends up in an Egyptian tomb. Booker prize longlist revealed 2010-07-27T17:20:00Z Inside it’s like an art museum, filled with exquisite paintings, detailed woodcarving and elaborately painted tombs. Belgium’s beautiful Bruges: Old-world Europe in the present 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z So imagine their shock when a routine adventure — a quest to find a fabled cavern, described in old newspaper clippings as a treasure-filled tomb — turns up actual evidence of supernatural mysteries and an unknown civilization. New & Noteworthy Poetry Books 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z “Grandma and Grandpa have a new home,” a young boy remarks as his grandparents’ ashes are sealed into a wall of tombs. ‘Vortex’ Review: A Split Screen and a Shared Fate 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z The film sidesteps the question of his divinity — we see only an empty tomb, not Jesus rising from the dead — and focuses on the political and social forces that led to his crucifixion. Television puts more faith in religious-themed projects 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z He took on commissions as prominent as Sun Yat-sen’s mausoleum in Nanjing — the family owns a Chinese bank note with an image of the tomb that he carried in his wallet. The Architect Poy Gum Lee Finally Has a Retrospective 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z The items from King Tut's tomb, of course, are the main draw. 'Tutankhamun' in Seattle: artifacts both dazzling and humble 2012-05-25T05:42:18Z Folded into a green hillside that rises above the busy artery of Via Nomentana, the circular templelike tomb of the daughter of Rome’s first Christian emperor preserves a mosaic cycle of astonishing exuberance and delicacy. 36 Hours in Rome 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z There are similarities – the frozen lover in the poem "sleeps in a tomb by the sounding sea" – but I'm writing in the style of the poetry, it's not directly pulled. Bard reputation: pop stars pick their favourite poets 2010-10-07T15:52:00Z In the libretto Radames is punished by being sealed alive in a tomb, where, in the final moments of the opera, he discovers Aida hidden: she has chosen to join him in death. Music Review: At Glimmerglass, ‘Aida,’ ‘Armide’ and ‘Lost in the Stars’ 2012-08-06T22:15:41Z And yet the words of a heart-broken husband on the tomb of his dead partner speak to us still across the ages: "There is no hope of living without such a wife." Invisible Romans by Robert Knapp – review 2013-02-15T17:51:01Z The organs were preserved and stored in jars, which would be stored in the mummy’s tomb. Unraveling the Mystery of Who Lies Beneath the Cloth 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z The discovery of the tomb briefly stopped construction, but the project continued on a different tract of the pipeline. Roman Tomb Unearthed; to Everyone’s Surprise, It’s Intact 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Only one was connected to the tomb discovery. Behold, King Tut, in All His Majesty and Mystery 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z By having the family crests of her two husbands carved side by side on her tomb, she made a pregnant statement about her identity and allegiances. The women who appear in Dante’s "Divine Comedy" are finally getting their due, 700 years later 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z Close to the tomb, archaeologists discovered a gold signet ring bearing almost no trace of time. Etruscan tomb in Corsica may yield secrets on civilization's decline 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z The 12th-century church of St. James and a neolithic stone tomb called the King’s Quoit are also within easy walking distance. I rented my 26th great-grandfather’s Welsh castle, and so could you 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z This is the dramatic hypothesis of a just-published paper by Nicholas Reeves, a British Egyptologist who co-discovered an undisturbed Egyptian tomb in 2000, and who is at the University of Arizona. What lies beneath? 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z How deep the Scandinavian imprint was can be gauged from the weapons and jewels recovered from tombs on territories stretching from the north of modern Russia to the south of present-day Ukraine. Review: The Foundations of Russian Culture and Art 2010-03-05T14:00:00Z Last year, there was a 75% fall in thefts of art treasures from galleries, churches and tombs. The Carabinieri Art Squad; Off the Page; The eSportsmen 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z Once contact was established, they remained in their tomb for another 52 days, before being exhumed in front of an audience of misty-eyed television viewers. TV highlights 12/08/2011: BBC Proms 2011: Film Music Night 2011-08-11T22:00:03Z The film opens with an image of Vidal, cane at his side, sitting on the tomb in which he will be buried. ‘Gore Vidal: United States of Amnesia,’ a Documentary 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Buried in separate tombs, the lovers are connected by an unbreakable bracken that grows between them. ‘The Love Potion,’ Staged by the Boston Lyric Opera 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z It’s one of the spices they found in the Mawangdui tombs. There is no “Chinese cuisine” 2012-12-03T12:45:00Z For me, it evokes the Renaissance balconies and tombs recently plastered into the walls of the V&A, sharing their sense of sculpture as something pictorial and architectural. Sculpture's lost in the third dimension 2010-05-12T20:35:00Z The museum label dates the small plaque to the reigns of Akhenaten or Tutankhamun, adding that it is “reminiscent of the images of Nubians and West Asians found in Haremhab’s tomb at Saqqara.” Exhibition Review: Finding Ancient Egypt's Sense of Humor 2011-05-20T18:30:05Z The fascinating tale of the 19th-century Italian monk, a “notorious tomb robber,” who gathered archaeological treasures in Egypt while crunching bones underfoot. 100 Notable Books of 2012 2012-11-27T16:28:12Z Rather than gradually, atmospherically rising, the lights on the tomb in the final scene suddenly clicked on, as if someone had flicked a switch. Review: The Met Opera’s Grand Old ‘Aida’ Isn’t Dead Yet 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z As they were preparing the site to present the latest discoveries, archaeologists found the door of another tomb that remains sealed, Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, told reporters. Ancient Egyptian tombs yield rare find of mummified scarab beetles 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z We didn’t even realize our bedroom was en suite until our “concierge” pushed back what looked like a wall to reveal a marble tomb of a bathroom to us. Check In, Check Out: Hotel Review: The Conservatorium in Amsterdam 2012-11-02T19:21:49Z Ancient bronzes, if retrieved from underground caches, were taboo because the recovery process violated ancestral tombs. Chinese Bidders Conquer Market 2010-04-02T12:10:00Z In the decades to come, unknowns from World War II and wars in Korea and Vietnam are added at the tomb, in three crypts a few steps away from their World War I comrade. Tomb of the Unknown Soldier marks 100 years of honoring unidentified war dead 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z One reaches the tomb via narrow alleys that are contrapuntally chaotic. The Delhi Walla’s Visions of a Possibly Vanishing India 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z Regular rumors of treasure chambers, temples and royal tombs are still just that, so experts are panting to dig in. A Facelift for an Ancient Kurdish Citadel 2010-07-29T07:50:00Z Getting lost in a tomb with a cursed mummy, running into a headless ghost — it’s all par for the course. ‘Sweet Valley High’ and ‘The Baby-Sitters Club’ were more than mere fluff 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z We toured one more World Heritage site — the royal tombs — which were impressive, if you like huge mounds covered with grass. In South Korea, a search for beauty, one day at a time 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z Then, right after the return to Earth, he shut off the TV and padlocked its electric plug, effectively turning the set into a conceptual object: a memory bank, a time capsule, a tomb. Fraught and Fabulous: Art That Shows a Passion for Democracy 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z The tombs were worn and tough to read at an 18th-century cemetery under a shade tree just down the road. A Father-Son Fishing Trip on the Chesapeake Bay 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z To visit him in old age, surrounded by servants, memories, occasional hallucinations and abundant objets d’art, is to sit with a pharaoh in a tomb furnished for the afterlife. Review: ‘Saint Laurent,’ Beautiful People, High Fashion and Career at Its Pinnacle 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z The elaborate tombs, temples and homes carved into the rock, and the fascinating system of dams and aqueducts, were something to see in person. Education in Israel and Jordan isn’t just for a daughter studying abroad 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z It tells the story of the tomb’s discovery by British archaeologist Howard Carter. How good is the King Tut exhibition? An art critic weighs in 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z The three-dimensional warrior on one of the ear ornaments, hung exclusively from the stretched lobes of ancient Andean nobility, is fashioned after the regalia the lord wore in his tomb. For curators, the quest to build 'Golden Kingdoms' for Getty exhibit leads to stunning surprises 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z The coffins - painted in bright reds and ochres - are stuffed with clothes and personal effects and placed in narrow tombs carved into monolithic rocks that pepper the mountainous region. 'You look so beautiful!': Indonesians celebrate the dead in ancient ritual 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z They lowered him into a tomb carved out of the floor near the altar. The Inescapable Poet of Nicaragua 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z Russians are in stitches over a frame in which a picture of Red Square supposedly in 1905 clearly features Lenin’s tomb, which was not constructed until 1924. The Last Czars: the historical drama that the whole of Russia is laughing at 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z Like their Egyptian neighbors, Nubian royals were commemorated in death with steep sandstone pyramids built over their tombs. 8 Awe-Inspiring Pyramids From Around the World 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z “It was like opening King Tut’s tomb, even in all its dark, degraded condition.” The Gilded Age Glows Again at the Park Avenue Armory’s Veterans Room 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z At the end, in the great final chorus, the singers say they will sit down in tears and call to Jesus in the tomb. Berlin Philharmonic Performs 'St. Matthew Passion' at the Park Avenue Armory 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z This is one of the reasons they have always made the best crosshairs in optical instruments and why webs are preserved intact in the tombs of the pharaohs. Fritz Vollrath: "Who wouldn't want to study spiders?' 2013-01-12T19:00:00Z Tarquinia's vivid tomb paintings meanwhile still attract tourists and lovers who linger late on dark staircases, gazing at timeless meadows where shepherds trail their flocks. Tarquinia: Visit the Painted Tombs of Etruscan Places 2011-01-20T09:30:00Z She was present at the Crucifixion and was the first to meet him after he emerged from the tomb. Artworks That Shine in New York Museums 2013-01-04T00:50:22Z The tomb of the 18th dynasty king was discovered by British archaeologist Howard Carter in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor in 1922. Ancient treasures go on display in London Tutankhamun exhibition 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z Disney confirmed in March that Steven Spielberg would be directing Harrison Ford, fresh from his barnstorming return to the A-list in The Force Awakens, in a fifth outing for everybody’s favourite whip-cracking tomb raider. A question for Steven Spielberg: is there room for a second Indiana Jones? 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z He also designed tombs for the wealthy at the Père Lachaise cemetery. Review: Starchitect of the Second Empire 2010-11-18T08:00:00Z Swearing it was this way, he led me down a mountainside, past a granite house and tombs in ruins, to a crumbling stone wall. Into Corsica, From Rustic Villages to Stony Cliffs 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z Stylistically reminiscent of the Parthenon marble riders, the artefact, fit for kings, was found in a royal tomb. Review: The Mysteries of Meroe 2010-05-21T12:00:00Z From the opening lyric of "Don't Give Up On Me Now" — "Time it opens all wounds / Trust gonna put me in the tomb" — it's clear "Give" is in deep, dark waters. Ben Harper to play Marymoor Park 2011-08-19T18:27:05Z The highlights of the exhibition are 10 life-size figures - including a terracotta cavalry horse - which form part of the 2,000-year-old army that guarded the tomb of China’s First Emperor, Qin Shihuangdi. China's terracotta warriors march to Liverpool museum 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z Elice still winces at the memory of New York Times critic Ben Brantley describing "Addams Family" as "a collapsing tomb" and "like going to a Halloween party in a straitjacket or a suit of armor." From cartoon frame to 5th Avenue Stage: 'The Addams Family' (snap, snap!) 2012-10-17T21:51:13Z Still, it conveys information about such subjects as the corrupt Venetian doge for whose tomb the work was commissioned, the accident that befell the masterpiece at the Met and, yes, fig leaves. A Shattered Adam Statue Comes to Life at the Met 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z So rapid is the rise in global temperatures, and so great is the rate of disintegration of the world's glaciers, that archaeologists risk losing precious relics freed from the icy tombs. How global warming is aiding ? and frustrating ? archaeologists 2010-09-25T23:35:00Z He pops up at Richard's funeral and plants himself atop a nearby tomb, from where he stares down at the proceedings with an outsider's gaze. Sundance film festival 2013: Stoker – first look review 2013-01-21T15:16:12Z The spell that Iranian royal symbols cast over the Macedonian monarchy was fully revealed when the royal tomb of King Philip II was uncovered at Vergina, the site of ancient Aigai. Art: Macedonia's Riches Before Alexander 2011-10-21T12:30:08Z The 1970s tour epitomized the word "blockbuster," with visitors standing in line up to eight hours at some locations to gaze upon Tut's solid-gold funeral mask and more than 50 other items from his tomb. King Tut treasures to visit Seattle in 2012 2010-04-14T02:59:00Z “Le Grand Macabre,” a vaudeville for the end of time, is set in motion when Death himself ascends from a tomb promising to annihilate the human race at the next tolling of the midnight bell. Music: New York Philharmonic Stages Ligeti?s ?Grand Macabre? 2010-05-21T19:40:00Z The district attorney’s office has accused Steinhardt of relying on a “sprawling underworld of antiquities traffickers, crime bosses, money launderers and tomb raiders” to build his collection. Manhattan DA returns artifacts worth $20 million to Greece 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z The Graveyard poets, precursors of the Romantics, focused on human mortality and often depicted in their work a lonely nocturnal wanderer among tombs. Poem of the week: Pervigilium Veneris 2011-03-21T11:04:18Z The highlights of the exhibition are 10 life-size figures - including a terracotta cavalry horse - which form part of the 2,000-year-old army that guarded the tomb of China’s First Emperor, Qin Shihuangdi. China's terracotta warriors march to Liverpool museum 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z The tomb consisted of numerous chambers that dated from 323 B.C. to 30 B.C. and that were accessible through a corridor and sloping set of stairs. Egypt Unveils Dozens of Newly Discovered Mummies 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z “Prior to that it was only royalty or aristocrats who had them, and most were made for tombs.” Inside Art: Sculpture as Portrait at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2011-12-15T21:41:44Z “If the young feel compelled to come and see your tomb, there should be something good written on it,” he wrote in “Latest Readings.” Clive James, a Tireless Polymath Who Led With His Wit 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z The movie begins in an atmosphere of Victorian spookiness: an old manse with dark paneling, a sealed tomb out back and many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore piled up in the study. Movie Review: ?John Carter,? With Taylor Kitsch and Lynn Collins 2012-03-08T23:03:00Z While there, you can also visit the tomb of Antonio Gramsci, the Italian philosopher, writer and founder of the Italian Communist Party, who was imprisoned until near death for opposing fascism. Read Your Way Through Rome 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z Henry Ossawa Tanner’s lithograph “The Three Marys” presents the women at Christ’s tomb as a study in developing sorrow: three faces, three stages of grief. How Radical Can a Portrait Be? 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z "He devoutedly conducted the funeral of his former slave," he reads on a Roman tomb, tracing the letters with his fingers. TV review: The Great British Story – a People's History 2012-05-26T05:00:01Z “The tomb wouldn’t open and the next cue was coming,” she recalls. A Starburst Is Born: Watch the Building of the Metropolitan Opera 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z After a new dig started in 2012, archaeologists unearthed a 9-foot-high marble slab that would later prove to be part of a large wall with a nearly 500-meter perimeter enclosing the tomb. Alexander the Great’s Legacy Stirred Up by Excavation 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z His latest film, “Day of the Mummy” casts him as Jack Wills, an Egyptologist searching in a haunted tomb for a valuable diamond. “I made no money and I was drenched in blood”: This is what it’s like to star in a B-movie 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z This occurred a few months after the tomb was opened and a mere six weeks after the press started reporting on the "mummy's curse," which was thought to afflict anyone associated with disturbing the mummy. 9 Victims of King Tut's Curse (And One Who Should Have Been) 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z All were part of a hoard of 77 gold relics that Cambodian officials believe were looted by tomb raiders and whose return was celebrated Monday in the capital, Phnom Penh. Cambodia Says It Has Recovered Looted Gold Jewelry Once Worn by Royals 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z "They built in a hurry, right across amphitheatres, tombs and aqueducts, and it already needed restoration by the 4th century," he said. Rome's Trevi fountain crumbling 'for lack of maintenance' 2012-06-11T15:24:29Z Nearly a decade of restorations removed most of the blemishes, but the grime on the tomb and other stubborn stains required special, and clandestine, attention. Send in the Bugs. The Michelangelos Need Cleaning. 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z Grand aboveground mausoleums and family tombs draw hordes of tourists to New Orleans graveyards. New Orleans’ offbeat charms are showcased in these off-the-beaten-path destinations 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z The next day, I drive about a mile and a half to Oak Ridge Cemetery to see Lincoln’s tomb. Commemorating Lincoln’s death in the city where he spent most of his life 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z It was as if the figures of the dead carved on tombs in Venetian churches had come to life, finally to disintegrate or be made whole. Art Review: ‘Pawel Althamer: The Neighbors’ Is at the New Museum 2014-02-13T20:22:19Z It’s a beautiful and historic cemetery with gorgeous tombs, headstones and mausoleums. Hoping for a Spooky Halloween? We Have Some Suggestions 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z It was very sad because around him there are always flowers on the tombs of the leaders of the Irish rebellion, but on Casement's tomb there is not one flower. Mario Vargas Llosa: a life in writing 2012-06-15T21:55:18Z At the core of "Discovering Tutankhamun" are photographs, drawings and other records from the university's Griffith Institute, marking its 75th anniversary this year, of the thousands of artifacts jumbled in the tomb. Exhibition unwraps drama of Tutankhamun's discovery 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z Yet the architectural and tonal distinction of Cannes, with its ornate glitz, comes off equally soulless and barren, massive tombs of misdeeds and mischief past and present. The Scattershot Satire of “Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie” 2016-07-23T04:00:00Z Its origins are in temples, pyramids, tombs and churches and, because it usually outlives its makers, it carries ideas of immortality. Cancer centre 2010-05-01T23:09:00Z The new dig suggested that the hill was not a tomb, but a temple – perhaps the greatest in Europe 4,000 years ago. David Attenborough's big dig 2010-10-25T21:01:00Z Gould was a wealthy American financier and railroad executive who visited the tomb of Tutankhamen in 1923 and fell sick almost immediately afterward. 9 Victims of King Tut's Curse (And One Who Should Have Been) 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z But his early exit from life after a drug overdose in 1982 left a legend that tends to seal his tomb. ‘Belushi’ Review: A Comic in Full 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z For one thing, this is a posthumous image of Seneb, made to fit into a niche in his tomb close to the Pyramids of Giza. Could this be the earliest portrait in history? 2011-02-09T14:29:36Z A drugged, unconscious Juliet striking beautiful ballet poses as she is hauled around by Romeo in the final tomb scene. Alexei Ratmansky wants to reignite Romeo and Juliet's spark 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z An employee recently noticed that a copper statue atop the tomb was missing a 3-foot-long sword. Copper sword stolen at Lincoln's tomb 2011-11-12T17:18:00Z In a ring around the prince's tomb were the graves of five women, probably his five wives, all of them clad in gorgeous textiles and jewellery of extraordinary splendour. The hill of gold 2011-02-19T00:05:32Z We go to Karbala to go to the tomb of Imam Husayn. Aasif Mandvi talks "Evil," djinns and "the appeal of Trump" despite being hated by GOP leaders 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z No wonder old-time comedians regularly quipped “Who’s buried in Grant’s tomb?” Review | Ulysses S. Grant, perennially misunderstood, gets a thorough re-examination 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z Chaereas is horrified, and Callirhoe is buried, though she is not actually dead; she wakes just as a pirate and his men are robbing her tomb. Review: How Deep Is Your Love? A Ratmansky Ballet Dives In 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z In September, Egyptian archaeologists announced the discovery of a tomb of a prominent goldsmith who lived more than 3,000 years ago, unearthing statues, mummies and jewelry in the latest major find near Luxor. Egypt reveals artifacts, mummy from tombs in ancient city of Luxor 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z The tomb contained the remains of four occupants — three men and a woman — and funerary wares. Roman Tomb Unearthed; to Everyone’s Surprise, It’s Intact 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z The west bank of the River Nile at Luxor is home to the Valley of the Kings, where pharaohs and nobles of the New Kingdom were buried in tombs carved into the rock. Expansive New Kingdom tomb unveiled in Egypt's Luxor 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z It was only in the shocked aftermath of the Crucifixion, of the empty tomb and of the post-Resurrection appearances, that the first followers seem to have worked out what it all meant. Jesus Died Only to Rise Again. Where Did the Concept of the Resurrection Come From? 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z Awake in a tomb full of corpses, he means, but that’s a mere detail. ‘Romeo y Julieta’ Review: Young Love in Two Languages 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z In the Valley of the Kings, the vivid hieroglyphs of Ramses IX’s tomb are breathtaking, but it’s Tutankhamun’s burial chamber that takes me by surprise. Our big exotic sleepover: a single-parent tour of Egypt 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z Unlike the standard form-fitting pullover, many midcentury male cardigans artfully hid the male physique inside a woolly tomb with the contours of a sleeping bag. The Men’s Cardigan Makes a Comeback 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z In the tomb, Carter also found ten slim, toothpick-like playing pieces, which can be stored in a small drawer built into the board. What We Learn from One of the World’s Oldest Board Games 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z The three-minute radio slot also discusses new funerary developments or news, such as body-snatching, mistaken burials, unknown tombs or mortuary legends. Spanish radio show livens the airwaves with death 2010-05-10T17:33:00Z A very rare survival of a larger fresco painting with a marine setting is “Diver,” a work from the fifth century B.C., from a tomb in Paestum, north of Naples. A Greco-Roman Tour of Myth and Nature 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Lenin's body was embalmed soon after his death and moved to a temporary wooden tomb in the Red Square, which was visited by over 100,000 people in the first 6 weeks. Lenin's body lying in state - picture of the day 2013-01-21T17:13:49Z The tomb is located inside the granite and marble mausoleum at the Forest Hill Cemetery in Memphis, Tenn. Presley was interred there alongside his mother, Gladys, after he died Aug. 16, 1977. Elvis Presley crypt up for auction this month 2012-05-28T11:31:06Z The ministry said the coffin was transported from southern Egypt to the GEM three days ago “in order to be restored for the first time since the tomb’s discovery”. Tutankhamun golden coffin under restoration for the first time 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z They traveled back in time and walked through the virtual tomb of Queen Nefertari, principal wife of Ramses II. Who ruled the world? In ancient Egypt, often times it was a woman. 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z But investigation led to an astonishing discovery: the tomb had been built expressly to trick relic hunters. Relic hunter: A missing Christian relic, the fall of Nazi Germany and a mystery that flummoxed historians for centuries 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z Darío’s tomb lay near the altar under a life-size sculpture of a lion with a face frozen in anguish. The Inescapable Poet of Nicaragua 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z It’s also the classic route of religious ritual and regeneration, bringing images of the tomb and the seedbed to mind. Sept. 11 Memorial Museum at Ground Zero Prepares for Opening 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z It has impressive tombs, and one of only two pre-Reformation baptismal fonts, where the painter William Hogarth was christened in 1697. Centuries of history come to life on a verger tour of Westminster Abbey 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Grant’s campaign slogan, “Let us have peace,” is engraved on his tomb in New York City. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated as the Civil War drew to a close 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z It was painted on the walls of tombs or buried in them. Sight unseen: the history of invisible art 2012-06-14T08:49:37Z Proof that Nicholas was listening, they believed, was in the “manna” — holy oil or water — that dripped from the tomb. Never mind the fat guy at the North Pole: Tell your children about the real St. Nick 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z The tomb shows markings of the Byzantine era. In Transit: Guess Where This Is 2011-06-09T16:50:48Z Today however, striking is no longer permitted in this form of stick-fighting, references to which were discovered written inside ancient Egyptian tombs. From death to no-contact, ancient martial art revived in Egypt 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z According to the Getty’s website, the grouping likely was colorfully painted and used to decorate a tomb. Getty to Return Three Major Sculptures to Italy 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z Of the hundred or so Jin tombs uncovered in Shanxi Province in the past half-century most were equipped with what amounted to sculptured home theaters. Art Review: ‘Theater, Life, and the Afterlife’ at China Institute 2012-05-31T22:11:08Z “I think I saw one person online say, 'Wow, look, the tomb raider is actually raiding tombs.’ 'Rise of the Tomb Raider' is a tale of 'woman versus wild' 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z The researchers restored a structure inside the church called the Edicule, which is believed to house the tomb itself. Researchers date discovery of Christ's tomb in Jerusalem to Roman era 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Hold your breath for a second, before this rarest of phenomena: a film as quiet as a tomb. Martin Scorsese’s Strained “Silence” 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Consider, for example, this description of a man’s shirt: “Hand painted, washed and repaired, the Karnak shirt recalls the rugged experience of excavating the ancient tombs in Egypt.” Using History to Sell Clothes? Don?t Try It With the Pharaohs 2011-04-18T22:49:26Z “Terracotta Warriors of the First Emperor” at Pacific Science Center features 10 warriors from the tomb of Chinese Emperor Shihuangdi and more than 100 other artifacts from the third century BC. ‘Terracotta Warriors’ exhibit makes grand entrance at Pacific Science Center 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z The film asserts soberly that we are all born in a womb and end up in a tomb. Street of the Iron Po(e)t, Part XI 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z What remains of their now-vanished civilization — especially the tombs carved out of living rock — reflects a “strange spirit of place.” A case for D.H. Lawrence as a father of modern travel writing 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z But now cuts mean the tomb may be buried all over again, according to Rome's extremely unhappy state superintendent for archaeology. Gladiator general's tomb falls victim to Italy's austerity cuts 2012-12-09T00:06:39Z Today however, striking is no longer permitted in this form of stick-fighting, references to which were discovered written inside ancient Egyptian tombs. From death to no-contact, ancient martial art revived in Egypt 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z The head of the Duke Giuliano, hovering above his tomb, received similar treatment. Send in the Bugs. The Michelangelos Need Cleaning. 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z Bunyan's much grander tomb is to be listed Grade II*, along with Defoe's obelisk. Burial ground of Bunyan, Defoe and Blake earns protected status 2011-02-22T00:04:01Z The intricate frescoes on the walls and ceiling were also restored to the pristine state they were in when British archaeologist Howard Carter first entered the tomb in 1922. Tutankhamun's tomb shines after decade of renovations 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z There are six games in the series, all with different settings, from a top-secret laboratory to an ancient Egyptian tomb. Let's roll: the best board games for Christmas 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Where medieval tomb effigies pictured people as ideal types, this is a meticulous visual record of an individual – a true portrait. Portrait of a lady: Hans Holbein's Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling 2012-08-20T14:18:37Z The audio tour is full of great yarns, none better than that of the museum’s Sacred Cat Rug, a 2,400-year-old cat hair rug found by Nile fisherman in the tomb of an Egyptian princess. 36 Hours in St. Augustine 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z The lost tomb of Caligula has been found, according to Italian police, after the arrest of a man trying to smuggle abroad a statue of the notorious Roman emperor recovered from the site. Caligula's tomb found after police arrest man trying to smuggle statue 2011-01-17T20:10:34Z The tomb may be the last resting place of Alexander's wife Roxane, his mother Olympias, or one of his generals, according to competing theories. Mystery of Alexander the Great-era tomb holds Greeks in thrall 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z Escudero said archaeologists hope the discoveries will tell them more about the so-called Pyramid of the Bees where the tombs were found, one of the several adobe structures at the site. Archaeologists in Peru uncover Incan burial site in desert valley 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z There’s a skeleton lying on a stone tomb, a bat flies in and drops blood on it, and it becomes Dracula again. ‘What We Do in the Shadows’ Revisits a Tale That Refuses to Die 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z The gold filigree ornaments with turquoise-colored insets found in the tomb of an official called Shi Gang are derived from Iranian models. Review: Groundbreaking Picture of China 2010-11-19T12:36:00Z “If they look carefully inside — like we did into the Cheops pyramid and the tombs and artifacts inside it — they will understand who we were.” This Library Has New Books by Major Authors, but They Can’t Be Read Until 2114 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Raphael’s tomb in the Pantheon was supposed to be adorned with a red rose every day in 2020. In the Virtual (and Actual) Footsteps of Raphael 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z While in self-imposed exile from his native England, which had banned Lady Chatterley's Lover, he took a tour of the mysterious painted Etruscan tombs in the town of Tarquinia on Italy's central west coast. Tarquinia: Visit the Painted Tombs of Etruscan Places 2011-01-20T09:30:00Z One of the most arresting pieces in the show is one of his most recent purchases, a small wooden figure slumped on a battered wooden chair, a tomb guardian from the South Sea. Dead good 2012-11-14T18:50:22Z I know Vienna only slightly and the emperor's tomb not at all. The Emperor's Tomb by Joseph Roth – review 2013-01-25T20:00:01Z Among the tombs and royal mummies that archaeologists have identified from Tutankhamun’s dynasty, Ancient Egypt’s 18th, there remains one gaping absence. What lies beneath? 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z The singer's tomb inside the cemetery's gothic Great Mausoleum remains closed to the public, and Friday's memorial won't change that. A year later, Jackson fans still out in force 2010-06-23T16:39:00Z Inside, look for four enormous heralds representing the kingdoms of the Spanish crown, carrying the tomb of Christopher Columbus. In Andalusia’s three key cities, one of history’s great architectural mash-ups 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z There is no wind and not a leaf moves on the tall maples attending the tomb. Tolstoy's great estate 2010-11-20T00:07:00Z In some ways the transfer is not unlike the Metropolitan Museum’s recent decision to return to Egypt 19 artifacts from Tutankhamen’s tomb. Museum Wants to Return Objects, but There?s a Hitch 2010-12-31T23:11:48Z The filmmakers also wanted to play up the game’s “hero’s journey” story arc, in which Lara begins as something of an innocent before becoming the tomb raider of video game legend, long braids and all. In the New ‘Tomb Raider,’ How Lara Croft Became Lara Croft 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z It’s one of two Taiwanese memorials to the island’s most famous export—the other is an ornate mountainside tomb just outside of Taipei. The Melancholy Pop Idol Who Haunts China 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z Junk box was the parental term for it; if I’d had the vocabulary, I would have called the object my “tomb of treasures” or “vault of valuables.” Bookplates, a Vanishing and Nuclear-Strength Charisma 2022-08-13T04:00:00Z But no one spoke as we made our way up from the tomb, back into the light, on our way to Duane and Berry’s interment site. The town that produced musical legends keeps staying in the groove 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z The team also discovered a tomb in Luxor’s East Valley, also known as the Valley of Kings, where it found “the tools that the ancient Egyptians used to construct a royal tomb,” Hawass said. Egypt discovers archaeological industrial zone in Luxor's 'Valley of the Monkeys' 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Those were nothing, however, compared with the humidity, fungi and dust wafted through the tomb by a thousand or more visitors a day. Your last chance to see Tutankhamun's tomb 2011-01-17T20:00:03Z In Tuscany, there’s an Etruscan tomb where an ancient wall mural depicts what appears to be a man making pasta with primitive equipment. National Pasta Day: Fun facts about the noodle 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z Ibrahim calls it a “centuries-old business” since objects were stolen from King Tut’s tomb. Egypt tries to stem flood of looted antiquities It leads his eye from the fennel to the ruined tomb to the minutiae of the flower whose "orange cup" contains five small beetles. Poem of the week: Two in the Campagna by Robert Browning 2010-07-26T09:44:00Z Don Giovanni, taking refuge in a secluded garden, stumbles upon the tomb of the Commendatore, which speaks to him and seeks his repentance. The Revelations of “Don Giovanni” at the Met 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z The exhibition at the Pacific Science Center contains more than 100 items — about half from Tut's tomb, the rest from other ancient sites — spanning 2,000 years and 30 dynasties of Egyptian pharaohic reign. King Tut's treasures return to Seattle beginning May 24 2012-05-17T16:49:04Z Noting that the Etruscans “built everything of wood — houses, temples,” Lawrence remarks that their “cities vanished as completely as flowers. Only the tombs, like bulbs, were underground.” A case for D.H. Lawrence as a father of modern travel writing 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z The variety runs from the eerily beautiful tombs of Creole grandees to a small plot on the grounds of a former plantation outside town where one of Adolf Hitler’s horses is said to be buried. 36 Hours: New Orleans 2012-02-16T17:02:36Z “The Price of Fame” was shot on location over eight to nine weeks in the Swiss town, using Chaplin’s former estate, garden, tomb, even his piano. A Caper More Chaplinesque Than the Man Himself 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z He also announced that tombs at Saqqara and Abusir and storage buildings at Saqqara and at Cairo University, among other sites, had been broken into. ArtsBeat: Egypt Reopens Museums and Historical Sites 2011-02-21T19:26:48Z I knelt at the austere tomb in a niche inside the Pantheon where he was interred 37 years later. In the Virtual (and Actual) Footsteps of Raphael 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z They adorned tombs or were placed along roof lines for decoration, to protect building tiles and to ward off bad luck. Looking for a Stolen Idol? Visit the Museum of the Manhattan D.A. 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z In 1927, the tombs were accessible to anyone who wanted to descend into them, carrying a torch to illuminate the walls. Tarquinia: Visit the Painted Tombs of Etruscan Places 2011-01-20T09:30:00Z The church, which houses the saint’s tomb — “one of the very sacred places of Italy” — is a magnet for religious pilgrims. Tuscany as Henry James Knew It 2010-06-24T20:43:00Z On Monday, tourists admired the downward pensive glance of Michelangelo’s bearded Dusk, the rising of his groggy Dawn and Lorenzo’s tomb, now rid of the remnants of Alessandro. Send in the Bugs. The Michelangelos Need Cleaning. 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z During the revolution, the tombs themselves were saved in the name of art, while the bodies were desecrated in the name of equality, fraternity and liberty. Essay: In Europe, Sharing Moments With History 2012-10-10T20:43:02Z Standing on the lid of his sealed tomb, the monumental figure of Christ is presented to the viewer in an attitude of 'heroica maesta'. Titian identified as Christ painter 2013-09-27T14:35:50Z Your hint: this nun is standing on the tomb of the mother of a historical figure. In Transit: Guess Where This Is 2011-06-09T16:50:48Z Though creepy, the mazes of aboveground tombs are hauntingly beautiful, a testament to the city’s unique landscape. Rowdy and Bawdy, New Orleans is a Party for Families Too 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z She pointed out the legs in another sketch and their resemblance to the powerful gams of a Michelangelo sculpture on a tomb upstairs. Are ‘Secret Room’ Drawings by Michelangelo? Now, Visitors Can Judge for Themselves. 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z It’s not quite an ancient Egyptian tomb, but the subterranean site goes to the core of the piece, she said. A Year of Mourning Steeped in African Tradition Leads to a Theater Piece 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z The volumes also document tombs and temples, some of which Loo was accused of looting during his career. Antiques: Notes From the Dealer C. T. Loo, and Pens of a Certain Age 2012-09-06T21:10:10Z The piece depicts biblical scenes, including the Nativity; the flight into Egypt; the entry into Jerusalem; and an angel at Christ’s empty tomb. Elijah Pierce, Outsider Artist, Finds a Spotlight at the Right Time 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z In Gentileschi's composition, Mary's body reclines next to a skull against a stone slab, reminiscent of a tomb. Getty purchases Gentileschi's radiant 'Danaë,' now owns 2 of 3 paintings in a set 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z In September, Egyptian archaeologists announced the discovery of a tomb of a prominent goldsmith who lived more than 3,000 years ago, unearthing statues, mummies and jewelry in the latest major find near Luxor. Egypt reveals artifacts, mummy from tombs in ancient city of Luxor 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z A sacred tunnel discovered in the ancient Mexican city of Teotihuacan is filled with thousands of ritual objects and may lead to royal tombs, the lead Mexican archaeologist on the project said on Wednesday. Filled with artifacts, ancient Mexican tunnel may lead to royal tombs 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z But not so long ago many locals moonlighted as tomb robbers. Silver Said to Be Stolen Is Back Home 2010-12-05T23:47:00Z The new installation, called “Object Number 1,” envisions a reconstruction of Vladimir Lenin’s tomb inside a three-dimensional cube rendition of “Black Square” — or rather, “black cube.” Entombing Lenin’s tomb: “Black Square” and the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z Among the items recovered were 23 travertine marble funerary urns dating to the Hellenistic period from a single tomb complex identified as belonging to the Etruscan Cacni family. ArtsBeat: Italian Police Recover Trove of Etruscan Antiquities 2013-06-27T18:34:04Z The result is quite striking, to say the least — something between a regiment of tomb guardians and an incredibly chic outdoor installation. Art in Review: Ugo Rondinone: ‘Soul’ 2013-06-27T20:02:28Z Built in 1982 on the National Mall in Washington, the memorial features a wide-angle pair of black granite walls engraved with the names of lost soldiers, and it descends below ground like a tomb. ‘Memorial’ Review: An American Story, Set in Stone 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z But he argues, too, against imagining the prison system as the equivalent of slavery: “…that don’t make the prison / they turned into the killer’s tomb slavery. / We all standing on the wrong side of choices.” A Poet and Ex-Con Writes About Life After Prison 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z The game’s rules became clearer after 1910, when Howard Carter dug an ivory board out of a pit tomb in Thebes. What We Learn from One of the World’s Oldest Board Games 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z Moreover, they view tombs and religious shrines as on par with idol worshiping. Islamic State reported to destroy historic tombs in ancient city of Palmyra, Syria 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z While the crew remained below deck, priceless artifacts from King Tutankhamun's tomb were shuffled into the belly of the ship, which would take them to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. King Tut's treasures return to Seattle beginning May 24 2012-05-17T16:49:04Z I felt more sorry for her than sympathetic to her character, not least as she shrieked and grunted for minutes on end while clawing her way into dead dad Agamemnon's tomb. Review 2011-04-14T00:00:02Z And for all the tombs, what happened to hundreds of thousands of Parisians buried there who don't even have lumpy soil to bear them witness? How to Read a Graveyard by Peter Stanford – review 2013-05-03T18:00:03Z Mr. Manuelian said he had never noticed how light seemed to focus on similar niches in many tombs. ‘Paris 3D,’ a Digital Model of the French Capital 2013-01-09T22:25:41Z In these Etruscan travel essays, pages and pages of descriptions and interpretations are devoted to what he finds inside the tombs, including porches, columns, household items made out of stone and tufa beds. A case for D.H. Lawrence as a father of modern travel writing 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z Just as the disciples readied Jesus for burial, the faithful prepare his tomb. In Greece, they do Easter with gusto 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z They described their pilgrimage to the tomb of the Great Leader: Everyone who visits must be in a suit, and when you arrive a special machine cleans your shoes. Mirror Images in the D.J. Booth 2011-01-05T23:22:41Z Improbably — very improbably — the looter has unearthed Montezuma’s funerary mask, the greatest archaeological discovery since Howard Carter opened King Tut’s tomb. ‘Dancing with the Tiger’: a whirling tale of art and its sometimes sordid acquisition 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z Inspired by cubism, futurism and the craze for all things ancient Egyptian that followed the discovery of Tutankhamen’s tomb in 1922, it lent a colourful, dynamic look to urban architecture. 10 of the best European cities for art deco design 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z His tomb is the only medieval English saint’s tomb with the full body buried within it. Centuries of history come to life on a verger tour of Westminster Abbey 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z “The left arm of one and the right arm of the other are raised in a symbolic gesture to refuse entry to the tomb,” the Greek Ministry of Culture said in a statement. Ancient Greek Tomb Yields Two Large Statues 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z Some artifacts had been reduced to shards found buried just yards below the surface; others were discovered intact, protected by the volcanic rock from which Etruscan tombs were often carved. The Kylix Marvel: Why Experts Distrust the Story of an Ancient Cup’s Rebirth 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z Sunni extremists like the Islamic State and others are deliberately wrecking shrines, statues, mosques, tombs and churches — anything they regard as idolatry. In Syria and Iraq, Trying to Protect a Heritage at Risk 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z One of the photos shows a naked Mendieta in a Zapotec tomb, with flowers bursting forth from her arms and legs, obscuring her face and most of her body. Review | Olivia Laing’s ‘Everybody’ explores the power and vulnerabilities of the human body 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z With the hope of filling in gaps about the early Greek civilization, archaeologists over the past three decades have sought out towns in lieu of palaces and tombs. Unearthing Everyday Life at an Ancient Site in Greece 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z Egyptian tomb reliefs and a painted sarcophagus appear beside Alexander Calder's colourful pyramids and a sphinx by Cocteau. 'Compulsive' art collector builds French museum to display ancient treasures 2011-03-27T00:06:09Z Yet, in the century since Howard Carter discovered his tomb, a flow of books, documentaries and sold-out exhibitions — not to mention Steve Martin’s 1978 parody-tribute on “Saturday Night Live” — has paid the pharaoh homage. Behold, King Tut, in All His Majesty and Mystery 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z At one point she blankly states "I hate tombs". A new Tomb Raider film – can they raise the dead? 2013-03-07T11:51:48Z Archaeologists told reporters the findings were important because one of the tombs - dating to between 650 and 700 AD - could be that of a ruler. Archaeologists discover pre-Columbian tombs in Guatemala 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Earlier in the day, authorities also revealed in the same area the tomb of the overseer of the mummification shrine identified as Thaw-Irkhet-if. Egypt unveils previously unopened ancient female sarcophagus 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z The sequence begins with the Last Supper, continues through Jesus’s death, and ends at his tomb. 10 Galleries to Visit Now on the Lower East Side 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z A simple stone slab covers the tomb at first. Tomb of the Unknown Soldier marks 100 years of honoring unidentified war dead 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z One large gold-plated coffin was removed from Tutankhamun’s tomb in Luxor’s Valley of the Kings in July for the first time since its discovery, and trucked to Cairo for vital restoration work before display. A glimpse behind the scenes of Giza’s Grand Egyptian Museum 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z The scene is part of an ancient Torajan ritual known as “Ma‘nene”, in which clans visit the tombs of deceased family members, clean their remains and replenish the coffins with personal belongings. 'You look so beautiful!': Indonesians celebrate the dead in ancient ritual 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Anciently created as single-chamber tombs, dolmens dot the Danish landscape, and during the Romantic era became emblems of home pride, of national strength and lastingness. The Danish Experience: Art That Marries Real and Ideal 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Inscriptions and ancient letters in animal tombs, asking for favors ranging from good health to revenge, bolster his theory. Ancient Egyptian Animals Had a Place in the Afterlife. Here’s Why. 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z Lewis and Chaucer, whose tomb lies in the center of the space. Philip Larkin to Get a Memorial Stone in Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Christians feared that the Muslims who now governed Demre would disregard the saint’s tomb. Never mind the fat guy at the North Pole: Tell your children about the real St. Nick 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z Later, archaeologists discovered thousands of life-size terra cotta warriors buried in earthen pits near Emperor Qin’s 2,200-year-old tomb. China’s Terra cotta warriors visit Children’s Museum of Indianapolis In the enormous underground museum, you peer into the dim tomb compartments at groups of human figures or alternatively, at underground herds of livestock. Cultured Traveler: Feasts for the Eyes, and the Palate, in Xian, China 2014-02-07T19:37:02Z They also say there’s no evidence that the tomb was that of Alexander the Great or his family. Alexander the Great’s Legacy Stirred Up by Excavation 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z The Holy Fire ceremony typically draws tens of thousands of worshippers to the imposing grey edicule in the Holy Sepulchre that is believed to contain the tomb where Jesus lay two thousand years ago. Holy Fire lit as Orthodox Easter bells echo over near-empty Jerusalem 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z But since the 1922 discovery of his tomb, the most complete ancient Egyptian royal burial ever found, he’s become the most famous pharaoh in popular culture. King Tut artifacts shine at Pacific Science Center exhibit 2012-12-20T00:00:10Z "I did intend to open up the tomb but only if a second radar scan showed 100 percent that there were empty spaces which it did not," Anani said. Egypt's economic crisis weighs heavily on heritage: minister 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z It is littered with signs of occupation, from megalithic tombs to Roman murals, necropolises and roads – the calzada romana to Ubrique, further to the south, is one of the most popular hikes in the park. A wander near Ronda: Spain’s empty quarter 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z IT began with parakeets, the brash, busybody rose-ringed parakeets of Delhi, with their lipstick red beaks and their irrepressible chatter, gossiping in the crevices of 15th-century tombs. India, Through a Birder?s Eyes 2011-01-14T20:30:41Z Winding pathways traverse the interior like tunnels into ancient tombs. The 25 Most Significant Works of Postwar Architecture 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z Their grave markers have vanished, and the most prominent monument there now is a plain stone tomb for George Hibbert, a slaveholder at Jamaica sugar plantations. Antiques: Antiques - Khadambi Asalache’s London House Restored 2012-05-31T21:21:28Z Ms. Masoni advises clients to “put the food in a home, not a tomb.” 6 Tips for Food Start-Ups 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z At a New York antiques gallery, the wife noticed Han Dynasty tomb figures with ash patina piled up randomly beneath a table. Bay Area Embrace 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The work that made the greatest impression was the “Cart of Death”, an elaborate float pulled by black buffaloes, with skeletons popping out of their tombs whenever the grim procession stopped to chant a dirge. Monsters and merry mayhem 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z She makes a link between the discoveries of Egyptian tombs, digging down into the earth to unlock the secrets of the past, and Freud's concurrent excavations of the human psyche. Artist of the week: Mathilde Rosier 2011-08-18T14:20:07Z For archaeologists, the tomb inscription was also important as confirmation of a hitherto unverified theory that performances in Pompeii had been presented in Greek, the language most used in the eastern Mediterranean. Pompeii Moves With the Times 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z Apparently imagining himself as Jesus in his tomb, Chesnutt is a Christ wracked by self-doubt: "I just wanted to bring folks together/ But it seems that I am the biggest wedge." Readers recommend resurrection songs: The results 2010-04-08T21:30:00Z David explained that the ancient Chaucer tomb is tiny because he stood just over 4 feet tall. Centuries of history come to life on a verger tour of Westminster Abbey 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z The mausoleums of Koshkar-Ata once housed the bodies of local saints, but many of the most recent tombs are engraved not with ancient religious symbols but with outlines of oil derricks. The Promise of Oil for the People Around the Caspian Sea 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z Larger elements — tombs, armor and human forms — were replicated via a computer-controlled milling process that chisels shapes from a block of rigid polyurethane foam. Art and Bacchanalia on the Met Roof 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z Our guidebook says there are Illyrian tombs near a village called Selca. The great Eastern European road trip, part two: road trip across Albania 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z In its traditional exhibition, the London museum chronicles the great fire with oil paintings, diaries and salvaged objects — among them a seared bible and a fire-blackened sculpture from a tomb in St. Paul’s Cathedral. Can You Save London From the Inferno of 1666? 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z The funerary mound contained the remains of a decayed oak ship, 27m in length, which had been dragged from the nearby River Deben to serve as a royal tomb. "The Dig" on Netflix: a refreshingly accurate portrayal — according to an archaeologist 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z On November 4, 1922, a team of archaeologists led by Howard Carter discovered a step that marked the entrance to King Tutankhamen's tomb. 9 Victims of King Tut's Curse (And One Who Should Have Been) 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z One is a dim image of cosmological creatures sketched on a scrap of tomb fresco. Review: Chinese History, Writ in Stunning Stone 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z In her latest historical yarn, she interweaves the narrative about uncovering Tutankhamun’s tomb with mini-chapters about the alleged curse on those who disturb his grave, steeping the story in an atmosphere of spookiness and intrigue. Behold, King Tut, in All His Majesty and Mystery 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Newell: There was a chase sequence through a valley -- high in the desert mountains full of tombs -- where all sorts of stuff happens, like people falling down and stone-age machinery going wrong. "Prince of Persia" director worried film may be homogenous 2010-05-26T03:39:00Z A headstone added to the tomb after Man Ray’s wife died was also knocked down. Surrealist artist Man Ray's tomb vandalized in Paris 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Possible new discoveries in the tomb of King Tut. Roundup: Islamic State loses control of Palmyra, discoveries at King Tut's tomb, a hypnotic digital deer cam 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z For the munificent Medicis, he was the artist on call, even unto death: Verrocchio designed their lavish tombs for the family church. In ‘Verrocchio,’ Leonardo’s Master Is the Star 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z The man who financed the excavation of King Tut's tomb was the first to succumb to the supposed curse. 9 Victims of King Tut's Curse (And One Who Should Have Been) 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z Sky full of stars, body parts flung out of transport systemsor suburban markets, dissolving into the greaterand closer light, moon on silent prophet's tomb. Poem of the week: Peter Riley 2011-07-11T10:20:00Z Next to Granada’s cathedral is the late-Gothic Royal Chapel, which houses the tombs of King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella I of Spain. In Andalusia’s three key cities, one of history’s great architectural mash-ups 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z I traveled to Israel last May to search for Herod the Great and I found him, or at least his ghost, at his tomb at Herodium. Herod the Great’s Israel 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z The tomb contained five colored masks and some 1,000 Ushabti statutes - the miniature figurine of servants to serve the dead in the afterlife. Egypt unveils previously unopened ancient female sarcophagus 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z The scene is part of an ancient Torajan ritual known as “Ma‘nene”, in which clans visit the tombs of deceased family members, clean their remains and replenish the coffins with personal belongings. 'You look so beautiful!': Indonesians celebrate the dead in ancient ritual 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z On the edge of the desert where the sand ends and modern Cairo begins, the pyramids of Giza were constructed around 4,500 years ago as grand tombs for the pharaohs. 10 virtual tours of the world’s most famous landmarks 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z Carter found its treasures piled around the walls inside the secret chamber, perfectly preserved in the sealed vault, just as they looked the day the tomb was closed. Why Egyptian replicas are as good as the real thing 2010-10-24T19:00:00Z With his wife Georgia, he toured the site in August, walking along the marble wall that rings the tomb. Mystery of Alexander the Great-era tomb holds Greeks in thrall 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z With his home, office, tomb and more located here, Lincoln is Springfield’s most popular tourist attraction. Commemorating Lincoln’s death in the city where he spent most of his life 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Here we see a man dressed in modern clothes — an artist’s smock, in fact — sitting on the floor of the otherwise empty tomb. The Danish Experience: Art That Marries Real and Ideal 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Inside the museum, which abutted the party’s headquarters, a sign in the King Tut exhibit explained how on Jan. 28, 2011, a wooden sculpture from his tomb was stolen and broken into two fragments. Tourists are trickling back to Egypt 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z He added that the international market for a former grave marker might be limited; in some cultures, he said, tomb artifacts are considered “bad luck.” Rodin Bronze From Family Plot Is Heading to Auction 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z The Cenotaph takes its name from the Ancient Greek for "empty tomb": it is simple in form, yet challenges us to consider the meaning of two world wars and their human cost. My best bit of historic Britain: historians' and authors' top tips 2012-08-17T21:45:07Z Smith, 65, who is most famous for her 1978 song "Because the Night," meditated before the stone tomb of the saint and then joined the brown-robed monks for a frugal lunch in the refectory. Punk "godmother" Patti Smith pays homage to St Francis in Assisi 2012-07-25T16:24:17Z In so many productions, the tomb scene that ends the opera seems hopelessly anticlimactic after Lucia’s unraveling, but in this performance Donizetti’s structure finally made sense. Music Review: Dessay Is Pale in ?Lucia di Lammermoor? 2011-02-25T08:38:16Z “When we opened the tomb and saw this broken grey slab with an engraved cross we didn’t know from which era it was,” Moropoulou told Reuters. Researchers date discovery of Christ's tomb in Jerusalem to Roman era 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z The windows cast light on the tombs of Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. Westminster Abbey gets new stained glass windows 2013-06-02T18:27:11Z “The two tombs were present with their mummies inside.” Egypt unveils previously unopened ancient female sarcophagus 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z The mystery of his origins is matched by a second question: Why is a 1,000-year-old sealed tomb covered in construction scaffolding? Four Secrets About ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z Two of the highest-grossing films in China in the past year were based on popular online novels about raiding tombs. Craving a Hot TV Show in China? Start Scouring the Web 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z But the last duet, the one in the tomb, is even more sensual and erotic. A New Take on Romeo and Juliet’s Ball, Balcony, Bed and Tomb 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z A trusted friend of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, Macrinus won his spurs fighting Germanic tribes, just like Crowe's character, which was enough for the site to be known as "the Gladiator tomb". Gladiator general's tomb falls victim to Italy's austerity cuts 2012-12-09T00:06:39Z I have been sitting by myself next to the iron cross that marks the tomb of our friends. Returning to the scene of the crash: A survivor of the Uruguayan rugby team plane crash reflects 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z The landscape is gold; the uniforms of the soldiers snoozing around the tomb are gold; Jesus’s beard, cloak and halo are gold. With Splendor and Saints, Hispanic Society Shows Its Treasures 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z This tomb was not plundered after ancient times partly because it was unimposing and unexpected. Exhibition Review: King Tut Reigns at the Discovery Center and the Met 2010-04-22T22:18:00Z I arrived in a large tomb chamber with a soaring corbelled ceiling. Tourists are trickling back to Egypt 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Raphael’s tomb in the Pantheon was supposed to be adorned with a red rose every day of 2020 to commemorate his death — but the ancient temple was also shuttered because of the virus. In the Virtual (and Actual) Footsteps of Raphael 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z The most heart-stopping touch of all is that, in the tomb scene, Juliet wakes a minute before Romeo dies from his potion’s effect; they dance together before she realizes that he is dying. Dance Review: ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ With National Ballet of Canada, in London 2013-04-22T21:36:14Z Today she is buried with her husband below the twin obelisks of the family’s towering tomb at Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris. Wildenstein Trial to Lift a Veil on Opaque Art World Dealings 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z In the coming years, a succession of fatal accidents, suicides, murders and other premature deaths strengthened superstitions about a curse surrounding the tomb. Behold, King Tut, in All His Majesty and Mystery 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z It was not yet 9 a.m. when I set out to find his tomb in the Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary on a large, main square. The Inescapable Poet of Nicaragua 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z Both have the sort of face that one expects to encounter carved in stone, on a crusader’s tomb, or incised in brass on the floor of an ancient nave. Postscript: Christopher Lee 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Then Pope Julius II called him to the Vatican to design the papal tomb, and to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Shostakovich meets Michelangelo the lover 2013-06-29T08:00:49Z In Poet’s Corner, in the south transept, there’s the marble tomb of 14th century poet Geoffrey Chaucer, whose burial began the custom of Britain’s greatest artists being buried or memorialized at the abbey. Centuries of history come to life on a verger tour of Westminster Abbey 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z They embrace in a luminous fog breathed out by the neon sign clamped to the window; green here is the colour of decay, the sickly exhalation from a tomb. 100 years of neon 2011-08-27T23:05:03Z These used to be shunned because breaking open ancestral tombs was held to be sacrilegious. Special Report: Asian Art: Chinese Nationalist Fervor Trumps Basic Facts 2011-05-26T18:00:08Z Next door, Sunder Nursery is a unique collection of plant species from near and far; another nearby tomb, that of Khan-e-Khana, a poet, is illuminated at night. The Asia Issue: Asian Odysseys 2011-03-18T18:55:00Z He appears to have believed it, which explains why he built his tomb inside the church during his lifetime and topped it not with an image of himself in perfect state, but with a corpse. The Undiscovered Country: Journeys Among the Dead by Carl Watkins – review 2013-01-06T00:06:53Z A voice in my ear tells me that the tomb of David Dickson, a reverend from the 19th century, is nearby, but I can't track him down. (g)Host City: How I found the invisible city 2011-08-09T21:30:01Z He became the first Chinese ruler to assume the heaven-kissed title of emperor — Qi Shihuangdi, or First Emperor of Qin — and built a tomb near Xian, in northwestern China, to match its grandeur. ‘Age of Empires’: How 2 Dynasties of Art Forged China’s Identity 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z A delicious aroma filled the church as they opened the tomb. Never mind the fat guy at the North Pole: Tell your children about the real St. Nick 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z Four game boards were also found in the tomb; one, made of ivory, is displayed here: was this his more favored activity? Exhibition Review: King Tut Reigns at the Discovery Center and the Met 2010-04-22T22:18:00Z Dogfish Head Midas Touch : The original entry in the brewery’s Ancient Ales series, this beer was inspired by the remains of beverages found in bronze vessels in King Midas’s tomb. Thank the bees for this wonderful farmhouse ale: Oxbow Brewing’s Catalyst 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z King noted as well, "Let's pray and work together for life and human dignity from the womb to the tomb, regardless of ethnicity or other socio-economic conditions." March for Life 2022: Advocates pray for a 'culture of life restored' in America 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z Her beautiful, highly wrought golden crown from the tomb is, said Kottaridi, "one of the masterpieces of the exhibition". Alexander the Great exhibition to give insight into man who conquered world 2011-02-02T20:10:53Z Dr Fletcher visits tombs and examines death masks and mummies to find out just why they invested such high expectations in the hereafter. TV highlights 29/03/2013 2013-03-29T07:00:04Z The bus, outfitted like a trolley, will wind past tall monuments and statues as well as tombs that usually go unnoticed. Green-Wood Cemetery, Where Presidential Aspirants Enjoy an Afterlife 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Many Qurans in the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts’ collection were transferred there from royal tombs at the turn of the 20th century, when Europe was plundering Turkey for art. ‘The Art of the Qur’an,’ a Rare Peek at Islam’s Holy Text 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z In the ensuing centuries, plasters used to incessantly copy the masterpieces he sculpted atop the tombs left discoloring residues. Send in the Bugs. The Michelangelos Need Cleaning. 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z At Maeshowe, a grass-covered mound that encases a Neolithic tomb marked up with 12th-century Norse Runes, the sheep that stood between us and the burial chamber fell to our raiding swords. On the Nordic Trail in Scotland 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z A tab in the lower left corner provides a rotatable 3D model of the tomb. Five-thousand-year-old Egyptian tomb opens for virtual tour 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z He also describes it as a temple, a holy resting place, a tomb. “The Verificationist”: Donald Antrim’s unsung masterpiece 2012-06-17T16:00:00Z Mourners walked slowly through the tomb area, their candlelight casting shadowy figures against a stone wall. Thousands mark Elvis's death, get surprise visit 2012-08-16T11:01:16Z In 2013 officials were still finding Jewish gravestones used to pave city pathways, including the one that once adorned the tomb of Sa’adi. Meet the Levy Family. Their History Is Our History. 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z As the boys say, “We haven’t kept our tomb sufficiently airtight, and our sacred objects are perishing.” “The Virgin Suicides” Still Holds the Mysteries of Adolescence 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z Below the lower basilica is the tomb, with a humble elegance and beauty befitting the saint’s message. Finding peace and faith in Assisi 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z The exhibition of items from King Tut's tomb and other important Egyptian sites opens May 24 at Pacific Science Center in Seattle; get tickets . Egyptian god Anubis is on the move 2012-05-14T20:14:34Z The return includes the contents of a princely tomb excavated near Fara in Sabina, north of Rome, which the museum bought in the 1970s. Those Italian Artifacts Actually Were Looted, Danish Museum Now Says 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z Arched niches around the elevated tomb were used by centuries of pilgrims kneeling below; those kneeling pilgrims took pieces of the Cosmati twisted decoration around the tomb, though some pieces remain near the top. Centuries of history come to life on a verger tour of Westminster Abbey 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z The whole structure resembles a tomb and a military bunker. Dennis Oppenheim, a Sculptor Who Moved Heaven and Earth 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z The Duat, ancient Egypt’s realm of the dead, was indeed a nighttime underworld, and it was also dark inside Tut’s intact tomb, where the undisturbed artifacts were famously discovered in 1922. How good is the King Tut exhibition? An art critic weighs in 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z Many were plundered from ancient tombs in Puglia, the Carabinieri said. Nearly 800 illegally exported antiquities returned to Italy 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z "Close the tomb once and for all. The fate of humanity is in your hands," she is told. Watch Alicia Vikander as Lara Croft in 'Tomb Raider' Trailer 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z Yet Tut’s tomb seemed to be finished in a rush – and to be unusually small for a pharaoh. 'We have never seen anything better' – the secrets of King Tut's tomb 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z And surely some of the ancient underground tombs being discovered in China today, particularly those with wall paintings, will be publicly available only at a digital remove, which could mean on the Internet. Art Review: ‘Echoes of the Past,’ Chinese Buddhist Cave Art, in New York 2012-09-13T21:22:46Z Britten, inspired by a Japanese Noh play he saw in Tokyo in 1956, recounts the tale of a madwoman traveling by ferry among a group of male pilgrims to the tomb of a kidnapped boy. Music Review: Juilliard Opera’s ‘Curlew River’ and ‘Riders to the Sea’ 2012-12-10T22:47:15Z You'll also find several monuments within the park's borders, including Grant's Tomb--the burial site of President Ulysses S. Grant and his wife Julia, which is the largest tomb in North America. New York City Parks Worth Visiting 2010-03-29T22:00:00Z Al-Qaida-linked rebels occupied the fabled Saharan city of Timbuktu in 2012 and enforced a strict interpretation of Islamic law under which they destroyed the historic mud-brick tombs they considered idolatrous. ICC judges cut Muslim radical’s sentence in Timbuktu case 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z It dramatizes the Passion, from Judas’ betrayal to the Crucifixion to Jesus’ heroic emergence from his tomb. ‘Object of Devotion,’ an Exhibition of Alabaster Sculptures 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Last summer she returned home with her two sons to burn money and pour wine over his tomb in Shaanxi. The China Institute?s Curator Has Connections 2010-03-20T04:40:00Z A scene in which soldiers prevent them from re-entering the old town to visit the makeshift tomb they’ve built for their daughter is brutal in its despair. ‘Fallen City’ Examines the Consequences of an Earthquake 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z The area is known for its archaeological finds, including the tomb of Petosiris, an ancient Egyptian priest, and a catacomb filled with mummified falcons, ibises and baboons. Egypt Unveils Dozens of Newly Discovered Mummies 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z His team will first use ground-penetration radar to search for hidden tombs under the convent. ArtsBeat: A Plan to Dig Up the Bones of a Suspected Mona Lisa Model 2011-04-05T17:56:16Z Yet another, of a woman in the Hungarian tomb, showed advanced tuberculosis, which she probably passed on to her husband and son, who are also displayed here. Exhibition Review: Long Dead, Yet Somehow Vaguely Alive 2011-06-16T23:27:50Z In the end, the tomb lost for so long is a reminder that in Egypt, the past continues to evolve. A Nile Journey Guided by 19th-Century Women 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z “Gold teeth and gold jewelry/every piece of your dowry,” he sang in “Montezuma,” over the band’s blended voices, “Throw them into the tomb with me/bury them with my name.” Music Review: Close to Eden, Where the Music Is Artisanal 2011-05-19T21:27:50Z Midas Touch is an ale made based on analysis of residues recovered from a drinking vessel that was in the tomb of King Midas, discovered by archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania. A big tasting event for fans of Dogfish beers 2012-01-10T23:28:03Z The exhibition includes Roman baths, Visigoth tombs and a medieval Moorish ward for plague victims. 36 Hours in Valencia, Spain 2011-01-20T20:55:00Z Inside the tomb is a sarcophagus that Colt opens, causing him to psychically link to Ashurbanipal, King of Assyria, the franchises’ new Mummy. Universal's 2016 'Mummy' Reboot Set In The Iraqi Desert Might Be Cursed 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Spare your tombs and stones, animate my bones, Make my guts alive! Style Invitational Week 1239: MASH 3 — combine two movie titles 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z The Vietnam capital made the top 10 for its fascinating sights and landmarks—like the Military History Museum, which explores Vietnam’s complicated history, and the refrigerated tomb of Ho Chi Minh. These Are the 10 Best Cities in Asia 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z British archaeologist Haward Carter discovered the tomb of the 18th dynasty king in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor in 1922. Tutankhamun golden coffin under restoration for the first time 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z Unlike at New York’s famous parks, there are rarely crowds cluttering up the lush greenery and diversely designed tombs. | 'The Spoon River Project': Good Place for Ghost Stories, Complete With Tombs 2011-06-23T20:10:42Z “If it’s ‘just’ a store room like the others in the tomb, it is probably chock full of unbelievable stuff – the most incredible hoard since Carter found Tut!” 'We have never seen anything better' – the secrets of King Tut's tomb 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z A band with no imagination guards an imaginary tomb. Perspective | Imagine Dragons and the scourge of the rock-and-roll grave blockers 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z The letter found its way to "Juliet's tomb", another location of dubious authenticity, in the crypt of a monastery just outside the city walls. Dear Juliet: the fans who write to Shakespeare's heroine 2010-05-19T19:59:00Z Soane's own legacy was not only his work as a pioneering architect, but the extraordinary London home he left to the nation with contents from an Egyptian sarcophagus to a tomb for his pet dog. Cake, children and cocktails: legacy hopes of 1,000 men in pottery exhibit 2013-01-21T13:45:17Z The researchers restored a structure inside the church called the Edicule, which is believed to house the tomb itself. Researchers date discovery of Christ's tomb in Jerusalem to Roman era 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z If anything is certain, it’s that living human eyes were meant never to see the contents of Puabi’s tomb after its closure. Review: ‘From Ancient to Modern’ Ponders the Origins of Sumerian Artifacts 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Ancient Egyptians interpreted the setting of the sun in the west as the gateway to the dead – and beneath a panel of bakers shaping triangular loaves, wooden steps drop into the tomb’s guts. Five-thousand-year-old Egyptian tomb opens for virtual tour 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z An epitaph in the tomb further reveals that his wife belonged to the Turkic Kerait community. Review: Groundbreaking Picture of China 2010-11-19T12:36:00Z Egyptian workers started renovating the tomb upon its discovery in 2018, finding a huge yard, colorful floor tiles and wall paintings documenting activities including boat making and hunting. Expansive New Kingdom tomb unveiled in Egypt's Luxor 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z When a caper goes wrong, the two call in an airstrike on an Iraqi village — I guess that’s something people are doing for kicks nowadays — and a mysterious tomb is unearthed. Review: ‘The Mummy,’ With Tom Cruise, Deserves a Quick Burial 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z It seemed somehow characteristic of both Bim and her city that it was a natural thing to picnic with your children at a tomb. India in One, Two or Three Weeks 2012-03-23T18:57:13Z He made a televised visit to the tomb in August — widely seen as an evocation of Alexander’s legacy — and later showed Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany artifacts found at the site. Alexander the Great’s Legacy Stirred Up by Excavation 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z Granger teams up with a military forensic expert and a Vatican priest to examine the tomb. Review: `Blood Gospel' is supernatural thriller 2013-01-07T20:46:04Z The man’s motives were unclear, a spokeswoman for Paris City Hall said, adding that early investigations indicated he was homeless and drunk when police arrested him on Tuesday as he was damaging another nearby tomb. Surrealist artist Man Ray's tomb vandalized in Paris 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z The obligation to consign them to a final resting place of our choosing — the grave, the tomb, the fire, air or sea — is a signature of our humanity. Sept. 11 Memorial Museum Conversation 2012-06-05T16:40:23Z Along with many of the other prehistoric stone tombs and monuments in Ireland, it was built centuries before Stonehenge, or for that matter before the Great Pyramid of Giza. Hey, Irish Americans: Your "Celtic" tattoo isn't Celtic — because that whole idea was made up 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z For nine months, more than 7,000 people queued every day, filling the museum’s forecourt in Bloomsbury, to see the wonders from the boy-king’s tomb. Finding the pharaoh 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Both tombs — cenotaphs, actually, as the mortal remains were buried elsewhere — were originally housed in the Chartreuse de Champmol, a Carthusian monastery in Dijon, the Burgundian dynasty’s official center of power. Last Chance: ?Mourners,? Many Faces of Grief, at Metropolitan Museum 2010-05-12T21:46:00Z The tombs also bore human skeletons and artifacts including a type of angular harp used in ancient funerals and sacrificial ceremonies. High times in ancient China revealed in funerary cannabis discovery 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z But Middle Kingdom elites also built rock-cut tombs and stone temples, military facilities and colossal statues, and many of these remain in various states of preservation. Met exhibit shatters 19th-century myths about ancient Egypt 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z One of the most common pieces of feedback we heard last time was 'more tombs.'” 'Rise of the Tomb Raider' is a tale of 'woman versus wild' 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z When boards of Fifty-eight Holes were first retrieved from tombs, they were imbued with the symbolism of their funerary surroundings, their circular nature compared to that of life. What We Learn from One of the World’s Oldest Board Games 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z “Good soil in this tomb,” Fourth Wife You remarks, disinterring her husband. In the Brutality of the Chinese Countryside, ‘Mythorealism’ Reigns 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Then, as we approached another necropolis, I spotted a man in a burgundy cardigan, khakis and running shoes wielding a camera and scrambling excitedly from tomb to tomb. In Saudi Arabia, a Kingdom to Myself 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z The only new entry in this week's Top 10 was The Pyramid, a horror film about a group of archaeologists exploring a cursed tomb. Hunger Games unmoved at US box office 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z Peristeri, the archaeologist, is glad the tomb "reminds the world of Greece's cultural contribution", But she plays down the fuss. Mystery of Alexander the Great-era tomb holds Greeks in thrall 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z Mark and his friend Seth Ellerbee invited me to watch them re-create a promo image seen on the Allman Brothers’ debut album: in a tomb alcove, hidden from view, on a hillside. The town that produced musical legends keeps staying in the groove 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z It still is: The deepest and longest tomb in the necropolis, the resting place of Seti I is adorned with astonishing reliefs. A Nile Journey Guided by 19th-Century Women 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z A monumental bronze candelabrum, weighing more than half a ton and meant for the tomb of the lavish cardinal Thomas Wolsey, was cast in London by an immigrant artist from Florence, Benedetto da Rovezzano. Behind Every Monarch, an Art Alliance 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z First, the researchers will use ground-penetration radar to search for hidden tombs inside the convent. Hunt is on for remains of possible Mona Lisa model 2011-04-05T13:36:55Z Her admirers place flowers and notes at the tomb nearly every day, and the crowds grow to the thousands on July 26, the anniversary of her death. Eva Per?n?s Buenos Aires 2012-03-09T21:57:43Z The display, closing this weekend, includes reconstructions of the tomb’s three chambers and reproductions of more than 1,000 treasures and ritual objects, accompanied by video documentaries and texts. Spare Times for Children Listings for May 13-19 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Yet it's not their flocks that Poussin's Arcadians attend to, but an inscription on a tomb. Cy Twombly and Nicolas Poussin: the odd couple 2011-07-06T15:00:01Z To complete yet another circle: Here Epstein carved the sculpture at Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris that adorns the tomb of someone who once lived just a few blocks away, on Tite Street — Oscar Wilde. Favorite Place: Wintry Wanderings Among Chelsea’s Ghosts 2013-12-26T22:18:07Z “When we opened the tomb and saw this broken grey slab with an engraved cross we didn’t know from which era it was,” Moropoulou told Reuters. Researchers date discovery of Christ's tomb in Jerusalem to Roman era 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z The 1,000-year-old church where British kings and queens are crowned is grand but surprisingly homey, crowded with the tombs of poets, politicians and 17 monarchs. Royal wedding challenge: Make it grand, yet cheap 2010-11-18T19:16:00Z Made from grayish unglazed pottery, their smiling faces and musical instruments suggest that they were crafted to entertain the dead they accompanied to the tomb. The Winter Antiques Show Embraces the Evolving Definition of Antique 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z The guards spend the rest of their on-duty time in special quarters under the amphitheater next to the tomb. Soldier joins elite group guarding Tomb of the Unknowns around-the-clock 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z "I felt like Howard Carter at the tomb of King Tut," said Landis, who created the costumes for "Raiders of the Lost Ark," "Coming to America" and Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video. The costumes are the stars of Academy Museum exhibit 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z On its west side, where Army tomb guards keep watch 24 hours a day, is this inscription: “Here rests in honored glory an American soldier known but to God.” Tomb of the Unknown Soldier marks 100 years of honoring unidentified war dead 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z Then, it was stolen from a defeated ruler or looted from a tomb and traded in Costa Rica, where it was reworked as a pendant. For curators, the quest to build 'Golden Kingdoms' for Getty exhibit leads to stunning surprises 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z Since the codex reeks of bat guano, it indeed smells authentic, redolent of an ancient tomb. Books of The Times: ‘12.21,’ a Novel by Dustin Thomason 2012-08-23T22:20:36Z “Risen” stars Joseph Fiennes as a Roman centurion dispatched by Pontius Pilate to investigate rumors that a Nazarene prophet called Yeshua — the Hebrew name corresponding with Jesus — has risen from the tomb. Scripture as a Springboard in Hollywood 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z Designed in collaboration with the architect David Adjaye and inspired by the tombs of the pharaohs, “Turning the Seventh Corner” takes visitors down a narrow, near-pitch-black passageway that makes seven turns. | Berlin Gallery Week 2011-05-03T21:11:06Z After the war, Elizebeth had to take all of her documents, the proof of her heroism and her contributions to the war effort, mark them classified and send them off to government tombs. Dig into those archives! The story of a lost code breaking woman of World War II 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z "Can you see anything?" asked Carnarvon as Carter opened the tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings. How 'Tut-mania' gripped the world 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z This one was surrounded by a very fine, old graveyard, like a metaphor, with many famous intellectuals in fabulous tombs; we sat calmly with the dead, as if we belonged there. ‘Alcoholism continues long after you stop drinking': my 15 years sober 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z A restoration completed earlier this year involved taking apart the shrine, which covers what many believe to have been the tomb of Jesus Christ before his resurrection. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Good Time’ and ‘Secrets of Christ’s Tomb’ 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z Beer inspired by ingredients found in a 2,700-year-old drinking vessel inside a tomb. A big tasting event for fans of Dogfish beers 2012-01-10T23:28:03Z If he could have looked ahead three millenniums and seen “Tut,” he might have wished his tomb had stayed undiscovered a little longer. Review: Egypt’s Boy King Mans Up for a Spike Mini-Series 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z She attributed the mess to one Medici in particular, Alessandro Medici, a ruler of Florence, whose assassinated corpse had apparently been buried in the tomb without being properly eviscerated. Send in the Bugs. The Michelangelos Need Cleaning. 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z On black marble tombs, blank gold nameplates await the fateful inscriptions. Spanish capital en ruinas 2013-02-19T16:42:00Z The mother of Byzantine emperor Constantine, Saint Helena originally built a church in the year 330 over the traditional site of Christ’s crucifixion and burial tomb. In Israel, a search for tranquility amid the Holy Land’s most popular tourist attractions 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z The worrying question is which mummies, for at the heart of this museum is a collection of resin-coated bodies removed from the tombs in the Valley of the Kings. Egypt's museums must be defended 2011-01-31T12:03:29Z Ms. Chu’s rough-cut and painted wood and ceramic figures of half-human animals, inspired by Chinese tomb sculptures, have proposed versions of the natural world simultaneously real and surreal. Art Trek: From Hot to Schlock: Holland Cotter Tours Chelsea Galleries 2014-04-03T22:41:59Z It acts variously as a castle tower, a well’s edge and Mélisande’s deathbed, but the enduring imagery is that of a tomb, of a death that hovers forever at hand. Review: Berlin Philharmonic’s ‘Pelléas et Mélisande’ Boldly Stretches Boundaries 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z As for some of the artwork found inside the tombs, it seems “well-cooked like spaghetti.” A case for D.H. Lawrence as a father of modern travel writing 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z After a few hours at the site, tomb fatigue set in. In Saudi Arabia, a Kingdom to Myself 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z At the time, the programme was judged a flop, since it found no treasure, no tomb, no real answers at all. David Attenborough's big dig 2010-10-25T21:01:00Z Breasted, another famous Egyptologist of the day, was a member of Carter's team when King Tut's tomb was opened. 9 Victims of King Tut's Curse (And One Who Should Have Been) 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z In and around Mosul in northern Iraq, the militants have destroyed scores of smaller Sufi and Shia shrines, tombs, mosques and Ottoman period buildings, said Lamia Al-Gailani Werr, an Iraqi archaeologist living in London. In Syria and Iraq, Trying to Protect a Heritage at Risk 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z His shots through the windows and doorways of ancient Celtic structures reinforce such associations; the narrow rectangular portal of Gallarus Oratory in County Kerry, for instance, might well be an entrance to a Pharaonic tomb. Bruce Davidson and Paul Caponigro Images at Yale 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z “You feel like it’s a tomb with the shade down,” he said. The Getaway: Test-Flying the Boeing 787 Dreamliner 2012-11-30T20:19:03Z Don’t expect to see the glittering marvels of King Tut’s tomb. Exhibition Review: ?The Dead Sea Scrolls? at Discovery Times Square - Review 2011-10-28T22:51:17Z Admire the purple silk with gold embroidery found in the tomb of the noblewoman, whose skeleton lies just alongside. 36 Hours in Thessaloniki 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z In a fuller – and very personal – account that Egypt's great archaeologist Zahi Hawass posted on his website yesterday, he says the 10 looters even damaged one of the fabulous objects from Tutankhamun's tomb. Egypt's museums must be defended 2011-01-31T12:03:29Z The church was supposedly modeled on the Holy Sepulchre, which features the tomb of Jesus, in Jerusalem. The other London underground: See the ancient city that lies beneath the modern metropolis 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z But it seems to emphasize not only how transient human life is, but, as we see with Tut and his tomb, also how long its traces might be felt. Exhibition Review: King Tut Reigns at the Discovery Center and the Met 2010-04-22T22:18:00Z On Don Juan’s magnificent tomb in El Escorial is a Latin inscription: “For the memory thereof is immortal.” Spanish capital en ruinas 2013-02-19T16:42:00Z The coffins - painted in bright reds and ochres - are stuffed with clothes and personal effects and placed in narrow tombs carved into monolithic rocks that pepper the mountainous region. 'You look so beautiful!': Indonesians celebrate the dead in ancient ritual 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z But the judge in the case said he must relinquish thousands of stolen ancient Roman artifacts because they had clearly been looted by tomb raiders. Getty to Return Three Major Sculptures to Italy 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z Julien's Auctions announced in May that it would sell the empty tomb at the Forest Hill Cemetery in Memphis, Tenn., at its "Music Icons" auction Sunday. Elvis Presley's crypt pulled from auction block 2012-06-22T22:16:05Z The Black Prince is remembered for his military glory, but his tomb effigy is a great work of art in its own right, with its startlingly fierce and powerful face emerging from scaly chain mail. Nan Goldin, Tony Cragg and Robert Rauschenberg ? the week in art 2011-07-22T12:06:33Z Leonardo A. Patterson, a globe-trotting antiquities dealer who is called canny by friends and a tomb raider by detractors, has long excelled in two areas: acquiring pre-Columbian artifacts and confounding investigators. Antiquities Dealer Leonardo Patterson Faces New Criminal Charges 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z He returns to the Sufi tomb every night. The Delhi Walla’s Visions of a Possibly Vanishing India 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z In the Etruscan tombs, he finally found his people. Tarquinia: Visit the Painted Tombs of Etruscan Places 2011-01-20T09:30:00Z The tomb was dated to between 335 and 312 B.C. on the basis of a coin found next to a skeleton. Roman Tomb Unearthed; to Everyone’s Surprise, It’s Intact 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z For all the adjustments and abridgments Gounod and his librettists made to turn “Romeo” into “Roméo,” they maintained the key scenes that move the wrenching plot forward: ball, balcony, bed and tomb. A New Take on Romeo and Juliet’s Ball, Balcony, Bed and Tomb 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z He and Elizabeth, broken-hearted, say their farewells, and as the Inquisition prepares to seize Carlo, he retreats to the tomb of his grandfather, the Emperor Charles V, where.....but see for yourself. The Met's Don Carlo: Verdi's Masterpiece, for Everyone 2010-12-10T21:50:00Z The lyrics went: "They opened up his tomb the other day and jumped with glee / They learned a lot about ancient history / His tomb instead of tears / Was full of souvenirs." How 'Tut-mania' gripped the world 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z The tombs and sarcophagi are beautiful, in their way, but also serve as a kind of memento mori in the largest sense. Essay: In Europe, Sharing Moments With History 2012-10-10T20:43:02Z In the photo displayed on her tomb, she is perfectly made up, wearing an indigenous textile and earrings as big as chandeliers. On the trail of Yma Sumac: The exotica legend came from Peru, but her career was all Hollywood 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z On the ground floor, a simple but elegant tomb marks Mother Teresa’s final resting place, and all are welcome to pay their respects. In Kolkata, a Love of Literature, Fried Street Food and, Mostly, Sweets 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z “We concluded, according to concrete results, that the slab which was adjoined to the bedrock of the tomb of Christ was of the Constantinean era.” Researchers date discovery of Christ's tomb in Jerusalem to Roman era 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Everett, who is writing about the poet's life, spoke at a podium Wednesday bearing a poster of the pre-renovation tomb covered in notes and lipstick at Paris' famed Pere Lachaise cemetery. Oscar Wilde's lipstick-covered tomb cleaned up 2011-11-30T17:14:16Z She e-mailed pictures of the Miyoshi family tomb to her friends, proclaiming gleefully that, because of her marriage, she would be interred there. Postscript: Lindsley Cameron Miyoshi 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z The tomb has plenty of room for more family members, should any of Logan’s children want to spend eternity with their problematic patriarch. ‘Succession’ Season 4, Episode 9 Recap: Dearly Departed 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z Outside the house is Neruda’s tomb, and below it a stunning rocky beach. Poet's Pacific paradise: Pablo Neruda’s homes in Chile 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z But now that the stone has been rolled from the Tanner family tomb, all we really see is another one of TV’s underwhelming acts of resurrection. You already know ‘Fuller House’ is bad. But are you adult enough to resist it? 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z He has the advantage, though, of being able to use his entire body, even if he can’t escape from that suspended hole, which resonantly brings to mind both womb and tomb. Review: The Lists We Live by in Daniel Fish’s ‘White Noise’ 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z The whole experience is like entering some fantastical ancient tomb. Architect Smiljan Radic's striking redo of Chile's pre-Columbian museum 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z A stone slab juts into the viewer’s space as grievers prepare to lay the remarkably realistic body of Christ into a tomb that corresponds with the chapel’s altar. Cultured Traveler: Rome?s Soft Spot for Caravaggio 2010-05-28T14:26:00Z Outside, a large reflecting pool surrounds the couple’s tombs. Atlanta for Kids 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z My grandfather had the complete set, and I pored over exotic images of samurai and yogis, Buddhist shrines, Mughal tombs and Hindu temples shaped like spacecraft. A Memory Museum, Courtesy of a Critic-Curator 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z The stones of the tombs gave off a parched, senile yellow light and looked, from this distance, for all the world like the rubble of a ruin. The eye surgery I never should have seen 2014-01-28T00:00:00Z The 16th-century ceramic, one of the finest surviving examples of Iznik ceramic art, once decorated the tomb of the Ottoman Sultan Selim II on the grounds of the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. Turkey Presses Harder for Return of Antiquities 2011-05-25T20:25:47Z Bones from ancient Chinese tombs, also on display at the Oriental, were used to help divine the future. Hunting for the Dawn of Writing, When Prehistory Became History 2010-10-19T21:55:00Z The discovery also raises new questions about the importance of the Via Flaminia, the Roman consular road running alongside the mausoleum which experts believe was flanked by tombs and rivalled the better known Appian Way. Gladiator general's tomb falls victim to Italy's austerity cuts 2012-12-09T00:06:39Z Visual devices such as flaps, pop-outs and cutaways take readers deep into the secrets of treasure lost and found and the book includes a glorious centre fold-out detailing the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb. Summer reading for children 2010-07-31T08:35:00Z And once beyond the door, inside the tomb, the other life starts. Art Review: ‘Theater, Life, and the Afterlife’ at China Institute 2012-05-31T22:11:08Z Nixon’s audience with Mao, Pat Nixon’s excursions to factories and the Ming tombs: the synopsis of “Nixon in China” tracks history closely. Still Resonating From the Great Wall 2011-01-30T02:30:03Z Consequently, when Alexander duly conquered much of the known world between Greece and the borders of India, he may have sacked Persepolis but he restored the tomb of his hero. Review | We may not be able to leave the house, but these transporting books whisk us to Central Asia 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z Kery was one of the artists chosen to decorate the royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings. Exhibition Review: Finding Ancient Egypt's Sense of Humor 2011-05-20T18:30:05Z “He contracted TB and died,” she continued, “and the father was so heartbroken, he put his son into the family tomb with the Guadagnini and a couple of bows.” Her 300-year-old instrument was in perfect condition. Had it been interred? 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z “The tomb is made up of a central lobby, and a burial room with two stone coffins. The lobby is divided in two”, he said. Finely painted Ptolemaic tomb unveiled in Egypt 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z When he was 24 years old, he was in a cemetery and saw the photograph of a young woman on a tomb. Dear Juliet: the fans who write to Shakespeare's heroine 2010-05-19T19:59:00Z At the wake, after the crowd had mostly gone, the grave-tender, dressed in green coveralls, drove a tractor with the tomb’s lid suspended by two metal chains. Who Stays Gone, and Who Can Afford to Return 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z The doll-size wooden models of everyday scenes stockpiled in tombs made it seem as if, for the Egyptians, eternity was an endless game of playing house. 2010-01-15T06:06:00Z The tombs are both precisely aligned to the sun’s movements so that a beam of light creeps down the passageway and lights up the chambers — Newgrange at the winter solstice, and Knowth at the equinox. Europe’s dead still speak to the living 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z The ballet ends up in a tomb, but for many in the company it started there as well, figuratively. Misty Copeland packs Wolf Trap with the power of love 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z Ah, the tomb scene: It's achingly beautiful, with Juliet waking just minutes before Romeo dies, allowing the pair one final dance. Swoons and swordplay in Ratmansky's 'Romeo and Juliet' 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z "The curves of their limbs show pure pleasure in life," he wrote, sitting on a grassy mound above one of the tombs in Tarquinia in 1927. Tarquinia: Visit the Painted Tombs of Etruscan Places 2011-01-20T09:30:00Z There are mausoleums seemingly on every corner where the Muslim faithful come to pay their respects at the tombs of important Tunisian religious figures. Don’t Sleep on Tunis, a City That’s More Awake Than Ever Before 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z Just one day before bidding was set to open on the singer's tomb, Julien's Auctions bowed to fans' complaints that the site should become a memorial. Elvis Presley's former crypt pulled from auction 2012-06-25T16:27:30Z In Africa, 4,000-year-old rock paintings and engravings found in Egyptian tombs show musicians playing what appear to be harps. Who invented music? The search for stone flutes, clay whistles and the dawn of song 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z Add the site to your bucket list, but tread lightly—tourism is both a blessing and curse for the preservation of these spectacular tombs. 8 Awe-Inspiring Pyramids From Around the World 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z Its rare Greek marble, throne and god's robes convinced the police it came from the emperor's tomb. Caligula's tomb found after police arrest man trying to smuggle statue 2011-01-17T20:10:34Z Just as the last time he sang this role at the Met, in 2011, it seemed only appropriate that the opera ends not with Lucia’s madness but with Edgardo’s mournful tomb scene. Review: In ‘Lucia di Lammermoor’ at the Met, Singing Through Sickness 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Whereas Lenin’s tomb exposes the disturbing autocratic heart of the Soviet workers’ paradise, the Holocaust memorial close by the site of Hitler’s bunker in Berlin reflects the urgent task of simultaneously obliterating and remembering. Die and do 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z With the exception of a wonderful scene in Rameses II's tomb, there is no genuine sense of place. Kenneth Branagh’s "Death on the Nile" forgets Agatha Christie was a master of the murder mystery 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z Yes, Ios, site of Homer’s alleged tomb, just happened to be on the way to Crete. Lost in the Odyssey 2011-08-19T18:55:00Z I was glad to see that the Egyptian tombs and the hall of the medieval knights in armor were as thrilling to her as they’d been to me, when I was her age. New York City From a Pint-Size Perspective 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Veiled like a medieval princess on her tomb, Daphne Guinness lay dead still, just one hand shivering inside its armored “glove.” Special Report: Fashion: Gone Global: Fashion as Art? 2011-07-04T18:13:03Z And what are houses but tombs for the living? Review: In ‘Remote New York,’ an Unseen Tour Guide Calls the Shots 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Erin Shirreff takes politics out to the city itself in a ghostly video of the United Nations Secretariat Building looking as blank as a tomb. Roots of Conceptual Art, Caught by a Camera’s Eye 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z The subtle lighting, dark marble, and treasure-laden walls evoke the feeling of a tomb without being somber or frightening. Kansas City museum to open new Egyptian Galleries 2010-05-06T17:52:00Z The new theatre promises a radical revamp of Elisabeth Scott's 1932 original: a vilified, endlessly adapted building which, even when it opened, was described as a jam factory and a tomb. The new Stratford theatre: a jam factory full of treasures 2010-09-02T06:00:00Z The treasures include some of the painted horses and 400 figurines buried in the tomb of Prince Huang of Lu in Shandong, ready for the afterlife. Mighty Ming 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z Death stalks his 24th album – one crafted in secrecy redolent of the tomb. David Bowie: The Next Day – review 2013-03-10T00:06:25Z There is an astonishing cadenza on "Nicodemism", the term Calvin derived from Nicodemus, who only dared visit the tomb under cover of darkness. Silence: A Christian History by Diarmaid MacCulloch – review 2013-03-29T08:01:01Z Straightening their see-through shrouds, they dance a full-length ballet with extended thrusting and grunting – astride the tenor hero, each other or the open tombs they have just abandoned. Robert le diable; Basca awards; Queen's Medal for Music – review 2012-12-09T00:07:19Z |
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