Sentence examples for graves date from inspiring English sources

Many of the bodies that now lie in mass graves date from earlier rounds of fighting.

These graves date back to 2006, when refugees were fleeing from Turkey to Greece to escape the war in Afghanistan.

ReprintsSome graves date back to the 1830s, or, as the tomb inscriptions have it, the reign of the Daoguang emperor, sixth of China's Qing dynasty.

The graves date from 1860 and include 45 from World War One and 30 from World War Two.

Earliest horse equipment (bits) found in Finnish graves date from the Finnish Middle Iron Age, beginning from circa 400 CE.

The earliest marked graves date back to the early 1960s, though LA County opened the burial ground for the unclaimed dead in the early 20s.

The bottom layer of graves dates back nearly 4,000 years.

The surrounding area is rich in rock carvings, monumental stones, and graves dating back to the late Stone Age.

The festival of Qingming, a time for tending graves, dates back over a thousand years to the Tang dynasty and is recognized as a public holiday in China.

While Lincoln became part of the national cemeteries system in 1999, its rows of simple white military-issue stones mark graves dating to the Civil War.

In East Concord, there was a cemetery only a few minutes' walk from my front door, and many of the graves dated from the time when Emily Dickinson lived.