The Shah-i-Zinda, a necropolis in Samarkand, was one of Islam's holiest places.
So does a touching child's tunic in linen the oldest spun fibre, older even than wool found in the necropolis of Zenobia, where a whole family had taken refuge.
But just in case all the potions he drank didn't work, he directed 700,000 men to build his tomb and a surrounding necropolis.
But the glory of Old Kingdom mural decoration is the low-relief work in the royal funerary monuments of the 5th dynasty and in the private tombs of the 5th and 6th dynasties in the Memphite necropolis.
A necropolis of about 1,000 burials has yielded goods of quality from the graves.
About ad 165, memorials were erected at Rome to the Apostles Peter traditionally considered the first bishop of Rome and Paul: to Peter in a necropolis on the Vatican Hill and to Paul on the road to Ostia.
In the necropolis west and north of the town were found mastaba tombs of Old Kingdom (c. 2575 c. 2130 bce) officials and a number of Middle Kingdom (1938 c. 1630 bce) burials.
Tourists are attracted by the city's colonial churches, 17th- and 18th-century fortifications, and access to two Mayan ruins: Edzná, some 30 miles (50 km) southeast, and the gulf island of Jaina, where hundreds of burials have been excavated in a large Mayan necropolis.
Capua became the chief Etruscan foundation in this region and Nola a second; a necropolis has been found in the Salerno region and Etruscan objects in low levels at Herculaneum and Pompeii.
Dayr al-Baḥrī, also spelled Deir el-Bahri, Egyptian archaeological site in the necropolis of Thebes.
The site, located in the low desert west of the Nile River near Al-Balyanā Al-Balyanāropolis for the earliest Egyptian royalty and later a pilgrimage centre for the wasship of Osiris.
