Sentence examples for their funerary from inspiring English sources

The vast size, awe-inspiring character, and the ubiquity of their funerary monuments bear testimony to this obsession.

2325 bce) moved south of Giza to build their funerary monuments; their pyramids, at Abū Ṣīr, are much smaller than those of the 4th dynasty, but the pyramid temples and causeways were decorated with fine reliefs.

Until this discovery, most of what was known about these early peoples, whose culture flourished in Tuscany and Umbria c. 800 100 bce, came from their funerary art and the writings of later Roman authors.

With a pile of bricks for a pillow, the friars were placed here after receiving their funerary rights and the air currents and damp soil combined to accidentally mummify their remains.

An absorbing show of their funerary treasures, which are part of a massive hoard unearthed by Israeli archeologists, in 1961, from a cave in the Galilean highlands, is now on view at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, on East Eighty-fourth Street.

Long before their death around 1500, they ordered the alterpiece shown in Figure 2A for their funerary chapel in the Church of St. Jacques in Bruges, founded in 1484.

No earlier civilization we know of kept systematic track of its dead: not ancient Egyptians, for all their elaborate funerary customs; not the Greeks; not the Romans, those otherwise assiduous centralized bookkeepers.

Their use in funerary offerings, rituals and royal ornaments is well documented.

They said their farewells as the funerary smoke began to rise from the enclosure's spire.

Lycia is described as a district along the Mediterranean coast of Turkey inhabited in the first millennium B.C. by people about whom relatively little is known, although they are noted for their "distinctive type of funerary architecture".

"Coming forth by day," the Egyptians termed this process: the phrase that provided them with their collective name for the funerary scrolls.