Sentence examples for largest burial from inspiring English sources

"Not many people know that Stonehenge was Britain's largest burial ground at that time.

At 4.5 meters by 2.4 meters, it is "one of the largest burial chambers ever discovered in Belize", Awe said.

Forensic experts have unearthed almost 280 bodies from a grave in eastern Bosnia that could be the largest burial site from the 1992-95 waccordingding to Murat Hurtic, of the Bosnian Muslim commission for missing people.

"Tuva's Valley of the Kings has long been a major area of interest for archaeologists because it contains the largest burial mounds in the region of Tuva and in all of the Altai region," Mr. Chugonov said.

It would soon be in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 90 miles south of Baghdad and the site of the world's largest burial ground.

So far archaeologists have discovered 40 large burial mounds containing 600 likenesses of mythical animals, gods and chieftains in what is South America's largest complex of megalithic statues.

The period is commonly called the Tumulus, or Tomb, period from the presence of large burial mounds (kofun), its most common archaeological feature.

The early-20th-century archaeologist George Reisner, for instance, identified large burial mounds at the site of Kerma as the remains of high Egyptian officials instead of those of Nubian kings.

They had no identical plan, but most consisted of a series of corridors opening out at intervals to form rooms and ending in a large burial chamber deep in the mountain.

Despite rumours linking it to the Black Death, no evidence of the disease was found on any of the remains and the team did not uncover any signs of large burial groups from that part of the 14th century.

And for fear of disturbing any human remains that might be within it — the graveyard was a Dutch burying ground in the 1600s, before the larger burial vaults were in common use — they put the slab back in place.