Sentence examples for inner tomb from inspiring English sources

An iconic image of Mumbai – the Haji Ali mausoleum, 500 yards off the shoreline in the glittering Arabian sea – attracted controversy Tuesday after a Muslim women's group said women have been banned from entering the inner tomb.

Stela 40 is of particular note because it contains the depiction o the aforementioned woman dressed in Teotihuacano garb; it shows Itzam K'an Ahk II scattering what appears to be either blood or incense into a "psychoduct", the name for a vent or a hollow duct that goes from the outer of a temple or structure into an inner tomb.

Religious scholars said there is nothing in the Koran, the Muslim holy book, or the Islamic law known as Sharia that bans women from mosques or mausoleums, or from inner tombs, like the one at Haji Ali.

What's on view here comes from the excavation of four significant sites in Inner Mongolia: three tombs of royalty or those with royal connections, and an important deposit of relics inside the White Pagoda, built in 1047 to house Buddhist scriptures and relics in the Baiyinhan Mountain area near the Liao Supreme Capital.

The sun is skirting the trees as we walk towards the inner sanctum of the "Tomb Raider Temple" (known as such since 2001 when Angelina Jolie filmed the first Lara Croft movie here) taking a broad sandy track.

An outer layer of sticky white kaolin clay prevented moisture from penetrating the tomb, and an inner layer of charcoal fixed all the available oxygen within a day of burial, so the deceased (Xinzhui, or Lady Dai, the governor's wife) was found in a near-perfect state of preservation.

According to custom, the remains of Rakoto Frah (affectionately called "Dadakoto" among his inner circle) were removed from the tomb to be wrapped in fresh silk shrouds.

There is a tomb at his palace in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, but it only contains his personal effects, not his remains.

Circumambulation of the tombs is undertaken by devotees to achieve inner purity.

The Coffin Texts were most commonly written on the inner surfaces of coffins, though they are occasionally found on tomb walls or on papyri.

It was followed by a second poetry collection, Le Tombeau des rois (1953; The Tomb of the Kings), which more clearly reveals her inner anguish and intensity of purpose.