Sentence examples for great tomb from inspiring English sources

The planning of his great tomb was begun by Mausolus himself.

His own great tomb (the modern Castel Sant'Angelo) was inspired by an Augustan precedent, the Julio-Claudian mausoleum, at Rome.

The most revealing testimony to this royal cult is the temple pyramid itself, for almost every one explored has a great tomb hidden in its base.

As cultural icon in the mid-18th century, Handel seems to have been up there with Shakespeare (also immortalised by Roubiliac) and Newton (another great tomb in the Abbey).

At Xanthus, the capital of Lycia, a tomb resembling a Greek temple raised high on a platform had been built by the end of the 5th century; similar structures were made there in the 4th century, culminating in the great tomb built in midcentury at Halicarnassus for King Mausolus of Caria, a king who has given his name to all such monumental mausoleums.

IN how many places can you visit a 5,000-year-old 5,000-year-old 5,000-year-oldmb of the same era and read graffiti cut into its walls by village four millenniums later, stroll round the ruins of a pre-Roman castle -- and never be more than a 20-minute drive from one of the oldest and loveliest stone circles in existence?

The paintings in great tombs, such as that of Rekhmire, are more formal but still crammed with unusual detail.

Many of the new artistic developments undoubtedly can be traced back to the Naqādah II period; but the abundant evidence from the great tombs of the 1st dynasty at Abydos and Ṣaqqārah far outweighs what was found in the modest burials of earlier times.

The Maison des Esclaves stands on the rocky shore of Gorée Island, off the coast of Senegal, like a great red tomb.

The Bolsheviks put teams to work prying pearls from centuries-old icons, cracked open private safe-deposit boxes, and even stripped a necklace from Catherine the Great's tomb.

The resulting hangovers delayed our next day's departure south over the mountains until noon, so that it was too dark to see anything by the time we reached Cyrus the Great's tomb at Pasagard and the spectacular remains of Persepolis, the summer capital founded by Darius and burned by Alexander.