Two large scarab beetles were found inside a tiny limestone sarcophagus placed within a larger sarcophagus, while another batch was found inside a smaller sarcophagus.
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MYSTERIOUS GIANT SARCOPHAGUS DISCOVERED IN EGYPT Mystery has surrounded the sarcophagus since its discovery was announced earlier this month.
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Mr. Waziri was also quick to dispel the notion that opening the sarcophagus might unleash a curse, a rumor that spread quickly online when the sarcophagus was discovered.
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There, on a golden altar, is Jim White's glass sarcophagus.
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Forget sarcophagus juice, feed them some mayonnaise flovored ice cream.
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Maybe it has something to do with the ancient sarcophagus.
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The regrettable interior of the mysterious black sarcophagus found in Egypt.
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A mysterious ancient black granite sarcophagus has been discovered in Egypt.
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There are two photographs of the sarcophagus hanging near her installation.
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There will be 33 sarcophagus screenings of Aniara starting on Jan.
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Another collection of scarab mummies was found inside a smaller sarcophagus.
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Nobody listened to reason, however, and yesterday, the sarcophagus was opened.
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Bijan — Con: cursed sarcophagus shows up in Kanye's next Trump freestyle.
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At the same time, the sarcophagus was running into structural problems.
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Alice's body is recovered by the Religion of Crime and they bring her back to life in a sarcophagus, but being kept in a sarcophagus for so long leaves her even more mentally unstable than before.
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Photo: Egyptian Ministry of AntiquitiesBut the sarcophagus contained none of those things.
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But for some reason, the contents of this particular sarcophagus went unnoticed.
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Workers who built the sarcophagus were exposed to high levels of radioactivity.
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The sarcophagus was also full of red sewage that had leaked in.
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Workers will start to dismantle the sarcophagus before it comes tumbling down.
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His sarcophagus was found beneath the Temple of the Inscriptions in 1952.
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Mystery has swirled around the 2,000-year-old sarcophagus (Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities)
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The sludge, they think, leaked into the sarcophagus from a nearby sewage trough.
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Archaeologists in Egypt have opened up a mysterious ancient 'cursed' black granite sarcophagus.
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Out of sheer impatience, he deliberately vandalizes the protections around an ancient sarcophagus.
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Now, the entire sarcophagus has to be dismantled before it comes tumbling down.
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Take a look at the sarcophagus' rise and fall after the Chernobyl disaster.
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The flower pot turned out to be part of an ancient Roman sarcophagus.
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The answer was decidedly less exciting when the sarcophagus was opened on Thursday.
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Those fears were put to rest on Thursday, when the sarcophagus was finally opened.
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Three skeletons and water sewage were found in the sarcophagus (Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities)
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Archaeologists plan to analyze the remains discovered in the sarcophagus (Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities)
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The internet really wants to open the sarcophagus and release that sweet, sweet curse.
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There was even speculation that the sarcophagus may contain the body of Alexander the Great.
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Egyptian officials will be transferring the sarcophagus skeletons to the Museum of Alexandria for analysis.
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A mysterious 2,000-year-old sarcophagus has been found and everyone wants to open it.
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The large beetles lay buried under the lid of heavy limestone sarcophagus for 4,500 years.
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Now, construction workers will have to reinforce the sarcophagus again while its parts get disassembled.
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Records suggested the 2,500-year-old sarcophagus was empty, so no one bothered to look inside.
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Over the years the sarcophagus has deteriorated and become vulnerable to leaks during rain and snowstorms.
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"The sarcophagus has been opened, but we have not been hit by a curse," said Waziri.
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I sneak in some sleep in my slim, sarcophagus-shaped bunk whenever the opportunity presents itself.
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Those initial plans involved commissioning a glass sarcophagus for two, held by elephants made of silver.
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But some parts of the internet, driven by the images of the exhumed sarcophagus, were spellbound.
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Archaeologists are reconstructing pieces of a 2,000-year-old sarcophagus lid featuring a colored leopard face.
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"The sarcophagus has been opened, but we have not been hit by a curse," he said.
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A bed he designed looks like a sarcophagus crafted from alabaster, and weighs over a ton.
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The wine jug supplies a rare depiction of the deceased being lowered into an ancient sarcophagus.
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You'll want to mix your sarcophagus juice with equal parts water and bring it to a boil.
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Three skeletons and sewage water were found inside the sarcophagus, the Ministry explained, in a Facebook post .
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He's laid out like Lenin in a glass sarcophagus, but fossilized and missing most of his bones.
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Can we surround the sarcophagus with America's growing cadre of unabashed white supremacists before we open it?
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Like every other pair of true wireless earbuds, the XT comes with its own little battery sarcophagus.
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The white marble sarcophagus has three Greek figures sculpted on the side representing Peace, Victory, and Valor.
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Once the sarcophagus is torn down, workers will begin the gargantuan task of cleaning up radioactive waste.
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"As far as I can see, there's no inscription on the sarcophagus, which is strange," he said.
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"It is conceivable to me that (the sarcophagus has been) reused in a later period," he said.
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Then a sarcophagus or gargoyle or mask might slow our pace, beckon we stop, seize our gaze.
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He removed the breastplate of Alexander the Great from his sarcophagus and wore it himself at times.
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The archaeologists will soon begin a physical reconstruction of the sarcophagus lid in their laboratories in Aswan.
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Twenty feet down, the researchers found the remains of a sarcophagus neglected by previous generations of archaeologists.
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As for the granite sarcophagus, Ahram Online reports that it will be restored and moved to the museum.
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Thousands of people queue up daily to see his embalmed body lying in state in a glass sarcophagus.
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The movie follows a group of pre-teens as they discover a sarcophagus with a living mummy inside.
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In the subsequent months, workers scrambled to build a covering, or "sarcophagus," to prevent the spread of contaminants.
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LONDON — First, the archaeologist and her team uncovered a sarcophagus from a village in southern Greece in 1984.
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He carved a pear-wood sarcophagus, incised with Degas-vintage ballerinas and laughing faces borrowed from Japanese netsuke.
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The contents of the 2,000-year-old sarcophagus were unknown, prompting fears its opening might unleash an ancient curse.
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The Ministry of Antiquities will also lift the sarcophagus from the ground and move it to Egypt's Military Museum.
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In the months after the accident, a sarcophagus was built to cover Reactor 4 and contain the radioactive material.
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It's a sculpture in the form of a sarcophagus molded from wax and darkened with her signature walnut stain.
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From the unfortunate Fyre Festival meals to the mummy soup from the recently opened sarcophagus, everyone's making queso tonight.
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He is rattled by a Sarcophagus and develops Claustrophobia, or is distressed by a Beast Carcass and becomes Zoophobic.
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Over the centuries since, the sarcophagus would have survived looters, plowing and a machinery of a nearby coal mine.
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During one portion of the workshop, the group sits near an Etruscan sarcophagus while talking about death and dying.
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Though most of Tutankhamun's treasures are in the Egyptian Museum, his outer sarcophagus is still in the burial chamber.
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In 1988, Soviet scientists revealed that the sarcophagus had only been designed to last for 20 to 30 years.
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Experts also restored the sarcophagus of King Djoser within the pyramid and the walls of the burial shaft tomb.
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She is buried there, her tomb a striking marble sarcophagus designed by Lord Frederic Leighton, the famed English artist.
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A petition to "let people drink the red liquid from the dark sarcophagus" has thousands of signatures on Change.
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The sarcophagus of King Tut is displayed in a glass case at the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt.
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Some even thought that the sarcophagus might contain the body of Alexander the Great, whose grave has never been found.
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After that they poured a layer of concrete over a large area and erected a wall closest to the sarcophagus.
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According to Egypt's Ministry of State of Antiquities, the black granite sarcophagus was found in Alexandria, buried 16 feet underground.
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A few weeks after the shell was finished, experts revealed that the sarcophagus had a "very high" probability of collapse.
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The burial chamber and sarcophagus of King Djoser, which is 90 feet below the surface, was open to the public.
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After the fallout in 1986, workers at the plant built a sarcophagus to contain the radiation in just three months.
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According to Egypt Today, the sarcophagus contains three male mummified bodies, one of which appears to have sustained head injuries.
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The Independent, citing local reports, said that Egyptian officials have been mocking suggestions that opening the sarcophagus would unleash a curse.
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Scientists working at the Nicholson Museum discovered mummified remains in a sarcophagus acquired by the University of Sydney 19313 years ago.
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Experts started to fear that the hastily built sarcophagus would eventually start to decay and collapse, possibly releasing more radioactive material.
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The construction workers will have to reinforce the sarcophagus while its parts are being disassembled (with the help of robotic cranes).
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Hadrian leans mournfully against the sarcophagus containing Antinous's body as five male dancers in G-strings stand statuesque in the background.
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The unique sarcophagus featured the leopard's face by the mummy's head to protect the deceased during their journey through the afterlife.
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The archeologists have since removed the sarcophagus from its tomb and brought it to a lab, where it will undergo restoration.
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It's with heavy hearts that we must share this news: people want to drink the cursed mummy water from the mystery sarcophagus.
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Photo: Egyptian Ministry of AntiquitiesTo internet sleuths, learning the true contents of the mysterious sarcophagus must be a bit of a disappointment.
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Several of the canvases hang around a pink onyx sculpture, in which twin ovoid shapes are encased in a sarcophagus or urn.
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While there, reporter Lindsey Hilsum posted photos of the wrecked fifth-century sarcophagus with a skull and bones emerging from the rubble.
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SAFANI Another marvel, the Egyptian sarcophagus of the Princess Sopdet-em-Haawt from around 828 to 193 B.C. is at Safani Gallery.
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Buckle up, everyone — Egyptian authorities finally opened up the mysterious black sarcophagus on Thursday that was unearthed at the beginning of July.
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Less than two months after the disaster, Soviet cleanup workers scrambled to build a "sarcophagus," or massive covering, to contain the debris.
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Around 600,000 workers were involved in building the sarcophagus around the downed fourth reactor, which contained about 220 tons of radioactive material.
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He lugged Seti's alabaster sarcophagus out of the tomb and sold it to the architect and collector Sir John Soane, in London.
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Since it was bought 160 years ago, University of Sydney archaeologists didn't think there was much to a particular sarcophagus in its collection.
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Because the coffin dates back to the 3rd century BC, Egyptian archaeologists thought the sarcophagus might contain the body of Alexander the Great.
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The coffin's inhabitant died around the age of 30, but it's not known if this person is the original occupant of the sarcophagus.
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AMAZING MUMMY DISCOVERY: 2,500-YEAR-OLD EGYPTIAN COFFIN WAS THOUGHT TO BE EMPTY The sarcophagus was found buried 16.4 feet below the surface.
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In one of the rooms in the tomb, archaeologists found a collection of figurines, wooden masks and a handle of a sarcophagus lid.
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Thomas's castle is far more modest than Norma's cobwebbed sarcophagus, and there isn't a chatty corpse floating in his pool, just palm fronds.
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Dr. Tsirogiannis was also instrumental this year in the return of a marble sarcophagus fragment to Greece and a $250,000 amphora to Italy.
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Near Cushing's elaborate sarcophagus are the graves for two of his friends who attended the academy and were killed during the Civil War.
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A 2,000-year-old black sarcophagus was opened last week and revealed the revolting : three skeletons, a vile red liquid, and a terrible smell.
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In 2016, Ukrainian authorities installed a $1.6 billion sarcophagus around the plant to prevent further radioactive waste from leaking out of the damaged reactor.
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But his corpse still lies at the heart of the Chinese polity, in a glass sarcophagus on Tiananmen Square, attended by streams of visitors.
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Today the reactor is covered by a massive confinement shelter that was built to cover an aging sarcophagus designed to stop radiation leaking out.
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Today the reactor is covered by a massive confinement shelter that was built to cover an aging sarcophagus designed to stop radiation leaking out.
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Judging from the layer of mortar between the lid and the body of the sarcophagus, the tomb hadn't been touched since it was closed.
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The sarcophagus didn't bear any inscriptions of names, and they weren't buried with valuables like gold masks or amulets that royals would typically have.
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What was believed to be the desecrated sarcophagus of St. Nicholas Photo: WikimediaArcheologists in Turkey think they may have reason to rewrite Christian history.
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Although the "sarcophagus" was fashioned from steel and concrete, the hastiness of the construction allowed water to seep in, and the structure began corroding.
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After the fall of the Soviet Union, the Ukrainian government launched an international design competition to come up with potential replacements for the sarcophagus.
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Then in 1984 an archaeologist and her team unearthed a sarcophagus in the same vicinity containing the remains of a woman of high rank.
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Measuring nine feet long, five feet wide, and six feet tall, the sarcophagus was found during construction in the Sidi Gaber district of Alexandria.
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A large, black, granite sarcophagus has been discovered at an excavation in Alexandria, Egypt, along with an alabaster head found in the same tomb.
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Ignoring the portents of impending doom (and the fact that stealing antiquities is illegal and also wrong), Morton and his Army buddies unearth a sarcophagus.
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The sarcophagus of Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria, buried in the crypt under the Wawel castle in Krakow, will probably be opened this month.
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"We've opened [the sarcophagus] and, thank God, the world has not fallen into darkness," Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said.
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In another room, the mission found "a collection of ushabti figurines, wooden masks and a handle of a sarcophagus lid was unearthed," the statement said.
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The graves: The best preserved, and likely most expensive, tomb held a child between 6 and 9 years old in what remained of a sarcophagus.
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Two of the insects were wrapped in linen inside a rectangular limestone sarcophagus decorated with paintings of large black beetles considered sacred in ancient Egypt.
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An additional collection of scarab mummies was found in a smaller sarcophagus, according to Dr. Mostafa Waziri, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities.
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THE CLOSER And finally … We bring you two mysteries, and searches for identities… Whose remains fill a 30-ton sarcophagus recently found in Alexandria, Egypt?
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They take the friendly mummy home before learning that if they don't return him to the now-missing sarcophagus before midnight, he will disappear forever.
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An entry from a team of British designers introduced the concept of a sliding arch that could be moved over the sarcophagus (and the reactor).
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"After I uncovered the sarcophagus, I knew I had to go back for more," the archaeologist, Elena Korka, said in a telephone interview on Friday.
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Image: Egyptian Ministry of AntiquitiesBack in July, Egyptian archaeologists dared to open a strange granite sarcophagus, finding three skeletons soaking in an unsightly reddish-brown liquid.
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The sarcophagus comes at a cost of $1.6 billion ($1.5 billion euros), which is being funded primarily by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (ERBD).
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Another is Jane Hammond's Spells and Incantations , which is various prints collaged into a three-dimensional sculptural self-portrait in the style of an Egyptian sarcophagus.
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Another is Jane Hammond's Spells and Incantations, which is various prints collaged into a three-dimensional sculptural self-portrait in the style of an Egyptian sarcophagus.
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Generations of pilgrims left affectionate graffiti on the sarcophagus of Mar Elian, including a Star of David suggesting that at least one Jew visited the saint.
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A ministry official, Aiman Ashmawy Ali, told CNN that the sarcophagus had been found in a previously unexcavated section of one of Alexandria's largest ancient cemeteries.
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The Bankside Power Station, a giant brick sarcophagus bisected by an ominous chimney-spire, was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and began operations in 1952.
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But there was little other evidence of anything from its 18th-century period, aside from the fact that it was a Roman sarcophagus, Mr. Barnfield said.
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The gilded sarcophagus, which was revealed as stolen after the Met acquired it in 21941 belonged to the late Priest Nedjemankh and is over 22019,19316 years old.
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The gilded sarcophagus, which was revealed as stolen after the Met acquired it in 2017, belonged to the late Priest Nedjemankh and is over 2,100 years old.
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In 1927, a huge limestone sarcophagus was found in the area and placed in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, but the site was then forgotten, Hawass said.
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Will it really raise awareness about the diversity and richness of Egypt's heritage, or simply maintain the stereotypes of a mummy in a sarcophagus with gilded objects?
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Hieroglyphs are painted on a bright yellow ground inside the sarcophagus, although the mummified body of the princess was removed sometime before it reached France — and TEFAF.
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Archeologists are now reconstructing the pieces of the sarcophagus, found in a necropolis more than 21926 feet below ground on the western bank of the Nile River.
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The sarcophagus lid and body have been sealed with mortar, which may indicate that it has not been opened since it was closed more than 2,000 years ago.
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There was a lot of fierce debate about whether we should open the massive and ancient black sarcophagus that was unearthed in Alexandria, Egypt, a few weeks back.
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Behind the gates, rising and falling in the darkness of an open shaft, was the old-fashioned elevator box, made of heavy carved wood, like some Byzantine sarcophagus.
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Alexandria Governor Mohamed Sultan said the sarcophagus will be moved to the Military Museum, and the three mummies will find a new home at the Alexandria National Museum.
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston recently mounted "Life, Death & Revelry," an exhibition that juxtaposed two works: an elaborate ancient Roman sarcophagus and a video it inspired.
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The authorities suggested that more objects of archaeological significance would be discovered once the excavation of five shafts begins — including the coffin or a sarcophagus of the priest.
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But excavations in Chiliomodi, the small village where her team found the sarcophagus in the Peloponnese Peninsula south of Athens, did not begin until early September this year.
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Mr. Ford seems entirely at ease in this world, which has all the life of a beautifully appointed sarcophagus and suggests that part of Susan died long ago.
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But because of the condition of the piece at Blenheim Palace, he suggested to Mr. Prince that the value of the sarcophagus might be three times as much.
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Photo: Egyptian Ministry of AntiquitiesIt's been quite the month for Indiana Jones-inspired madness, after a sealed 2,000-year-old sarcophagus was discovered in Alexandria, Egypt, on July 1.
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The granite sarcophagus was discovered in the Sidi Gaber district of Alexandria, Egypt, on July 1, and it was opened 16 days later despite warnings of a possible curse.
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A layer of mortar between the lid and the body of the sarcophagus indicates that it has not been opened since it was closed more than 2,000 years ago.
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A layer of mortar between the lid and the body of the sarcophagus indicated that it has not been opened since it was closed more than 2,000 years ago.
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The Soviet way of dealing with problems was to soldier through with no whining or self-pity, and so I built a sarcophagus over the pain of my experience.
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What they found in the tomb, along with the inscriptions on his sarcophagus, suggests the mummy was a singer in the temple or an Egyptian god known as Thoth.
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Two large scarabs wrapped in linen and in very good condition were found inside a limestone sarcophagus with a vaulted, decorated lid, the antiquities ministry said in a statement.
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Marine archaeologists recently found bronze and marble statue pieces, a sarcophagus lid, and a mysterious bronze disk at an ancient shipwreck site off the southern Greek island of Antikythera.
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KOSTOLAC, Serbia (Reuters) - Serbian archaeologists at the site of the ancient Roman city of Viminacium have found an intact sarcophagus with two skeletons bedecked with gold and silver adornments.
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That means alongside the ruins that appear in countless photo essays, viewers can see things like the construction of a new "sarcophagus" that will seal Chernobyl's reactor in 2017.
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The sarcophagus, probably from the Theban necropolis at Sheikh Abd-el Qurna in Northern Egypt, came to France in the early 19th century after the Napoleonic campaigns in Egypt.
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A cool thing that football players and dating show contestants have in common is that contemplating their age will make you want to crawl into a sarcophagus and disintegrate.
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And with that, let Cage's wisdom guide you through life—to live each day as though you've got the power of a "little sarcophagus" right next to your heart.
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The skeletons and sarcophagus are being transferred to the Alexandria National Museum, where experts will try to determine the cause of death and the approximate age of the skeletons.
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In August 2017, Henrik said he refused to be buried next to his wife when his time comes, in a designed-just-for-them sarcophagus at Roskilde Cathedral in Denmark.
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On Thursday, some archeologists over in Egypt decided to go against the threat of a world-ending curse to open up a 2,000-year-old black sarcophagus found in Alexandria.
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In August 2017, Henrik said he refused to be buried next to his wife when his time comes, in a designed-just-for-them sarcophagus at Roskilde Cathedral in Denmark.
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"Keep the pin in," Mao said, smiling sinisterly, his face tinted orange as it was the last time I saw him in his glass sarcophagus in Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
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Mr. Beane is not to blame for that — even if only one line in the show, delivered by a giant sarcophagus at the Met, contains anything of his customary puckishness.
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On July 29, the Ukrainian company that manages the Chernobyl plant, SSE Chernobyl NPP, signed a $78 million contract with a construction company to take the sarcophagus apart by 2023.
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When the pinkish eminence in a jeweled miter finally emerges from his gilded sarcophagus, 15 minutes into the 75-minute performance, he has little to say about his actual life.
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The small chamber containing a simple sarcophagus and round stone block was originally found at the start of the last century beneath the Capitoline Hill inside the old Roman forum.
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Image: Egyptian Ministry of AntiquitiesAs for the strange reddish color of the liquid in the sarcophagus, the researchers say it was caused by sewage water mixing in with the skeleton's wrappings.
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Buried in a badly worn wooden sarcophagus that was partially sealed with mud, the child skeleton was found with burial goods such as intact beer jars, wine vessels, plates, and bowls.
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The arch-like structure is designed to prevent the release of contaminated material from the present sarcophagus and also protect the structure from external impacts, such as tornadoes or extreme thunderstorms.
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The black granite sarcophagus contained in the tomb dates back to the Ptolemaic period (sometime between 323 and 30 BC), and it's the largest discovery of its kind in the area.
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Some say the radioactive material may prove impossible to remove safely and have suggested leaving it and entombing Fukushima under a concrete and steel sarcophagus like the one used at Chernobyl.
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The recovered works include a pastel drawing by Adolph Menzel called "Dame mit roter Bluse," a sculpture of a lion by August Gaul and a marble Egyptian sarcophagus from 200 A.D.
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According to Alexandria Governor Mohamed Sultan, the three mummies will now be transferred to the Alexandria National Museum for further study, while the sarcophagus will be moved to Egypt's Military Museum.
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Henrik has been in the headlines recently for his controversial comments about his decision not to be buried next to his wife, as planned, in already-designed sarcophagus at Denmark's Roskilde Cathedral.
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" And while the archeologists may not have unleashed an apocalyptic curse upon humanity, they have, however, unearthed at least a couple hundred people who now want to drink the red sarcophagus "juice.
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The next day, we gathered inside a gloomy building known as the Sarcophagus to hear Lukashenko receive endless formal congratulations from visiting delegations from the East, and to take questions from reporters.
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A concrete sarcophagus was hastily built over the site of the stricken reactor to contain the worst of the radiation, but a more permanent solution has been in the works since 2001.
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Daniel Krupa, IGN: When she first emerges from her sarcophagus she's surprisingly disgusting and moves with a creepy, joint-snapping rhythm that is distinct from anything I've seen in another zombie movie.
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The artists Marc Downie and Paul Kaiser, who collaborate as OpenEndedGroup, took thousands of digital photos of the sarcophagus and plugged them into their proprietary algorithm to create a new video work.
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While it's supposedly safe to visit the nearby ghost town of Pripyat, and to view the reactor under its massive, gleaming sarcophagus, questions linger as to how benign the area really is.
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The dig unearthed more than 300 tombs that were used between the seventh century BCE and the 3rd century CE. The room that housed the leopard sarcophagus held 30 mummies in total.
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When a black granite sarcophagus was found at the bottom of a pit in Alexandria, Egypt, last week, the discovery immediately prompted questions and theories ranging from the sensible to the supernatural.
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Inside were three skeletons floating in foul-smelling sewage that had leaked into the vessel from the road above through a small crack in the sarcophagus, according to Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities.
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But the sarcophagus likely dates to the early dynasties of the Third Intermediate Period (1070–712 BCE) and has no immediate connection to Thutmose III, who reigned between 1479 and 1425 BCE.
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He pointed out a 140–160 CE marble frieze from a Roman sarcophagus with two putti (cherubs) attempting to interfere with a sundial, perhaps to reverse the chronology that has taken a life.
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The discovery ofKing Tut's nearly-intact tomb by Howard Carter in 1922 sparked a renewed interest in Egyptology and yielded unprecedented Pharaonic treasures, including the boy king's sarcophagus and iconic golden burial mask.
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ARCHAEOLOGISTS OPEN &aposCURSED&apos ANCIENT EGYPTIAN SARCOPHAGUS While the famous Great Sphinx of Giza on the outskirts of Cairo is the best known, there are a number of smaller sphinx statues in Luxor.
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A concrete sarcophagus was hastily built over the site of the stricken reactor to contain the worst of the radiation, but a more permanent solution has been in the works since late 13.
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According to a statement from the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities, it may be the largest sarcophagus ever discovered in Alexandria, clocking in at 22-feet long, 217-feet wide, and 22018-feet deep.
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It had been expected that the Prince would be buried next to the Queen, 77, who is to be interred in the Roskilde Cathedral in a sarcophagus made by Danish artist Bjorn Norgaard.
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Photos released Thursday evening by Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities show a team of archaeologists climbing down the 16-foot-deep (5 meter) pit and wedging the black sarcophagus open with a wooden plank.
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So you'd lie flat in this sort of sarcophagus and when other tenants would enter the building, they'd step on this box, with my upper half inside, on their way up the stairs.
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Editorial The great steel arch that has been inched into place over the blackened and crumbling "sarcophagus" containing the radioactive carcass of Chernobyl's Reactor No. 4 is an extraordinary feat of human ingenuity.
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This week, the palace, a sweeping 18th -century site in Oxfordshire just outside of London, announced that it had removed the sarcophagus piece, restored it and put it on display inside the palace.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Archaeologists in Luxor have found an exquisitely decorated, millennia-old sarcophagus near the pharaonic temple of Thutmose III that still contains the remains of its ancient owner.
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CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (Reuters) - Ukraine unveiled a solar plant in Chernobyl on Friday, just across from where a power station, now encased in a giant sarcophagus, caused the world's worst nuclear disaster three decades ago.
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With financial assistance from more than 40 nations, including the United States, workers are constructing a colossal structure that will contain the destroyed reactor and the sarcophagus that was built immediately after the accident.
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Whether the contents of the mysterious black sarcophagus in Alexandria find their way to the museum is likely to be determined in the coming days, Mr. Waziri said, when officials prize open its lid.
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To the Guardian, the lead author of the study suggested that this is not the sound of Nesyamun in life but "as he is in his sarcophagus" (though we understand this isn't really correct).
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Egyptian authorities opened a 2,000-year-old sealed black granite sarcophagus on Thursday, an artifact that has become a media sensation since it was discovered in the Egyptian city of Alexandria on July 1.
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The story points out that the Chernobyl disaster never really ended: The reactor is still smoldering, and the sarcophagus the Soviets built over the reactor site in the 1980s is showing signs of age.
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Several UK tabloids previously said opening the sarcophagus could unleash a "possible curse," a claim that the secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Mostafa Waziri, cheekily dismissed in a statement to Egypt Today.
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Usually, in films and fairytales, when the heroes come across some ancient sarcophagus housing an evil power that could destroy the entire world, they take what should be the obvious step of immediately destroying it.
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Plus, it already had an illustrious history as a stone, used on the sarcophagus of King Tutankhamen, on a headdress buried in the Sumerian tomb of Queen Puabi, and, legend goes, as eyeshadow by Cleopatra.
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When archaeologists finally opened a previously undiscovered black granite sarcophagus in Alexandria, Egypt, this summer, reports of what they found inside were, by most measures, unremarkable: three skeletons and a mass of reddish sewage water.
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One thing is certain, though, according to Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Mostafa Waziri: The occupants of the sarcophagus were likely not members of the Ptolemaic dynasty, as some commentators had proposed.
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Other notable objects include disembodied terra-cotta feet with wrinkly toes and pulsing veins, a sarcophagus for a toddler, flasks shaped like ducks and birds, and vessels depicting gods, goddesses, satyrs, nudes and breast-plated warriors.
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Image: AP Photo/Amr NabilTutankhamun, the boy king of ancient Egypt who died at 18 and later exploded inside his own sarcophagus, apparently owned—and was buried with—a literal space dagger made from meteoric iron.
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He points to the case of St Pio of Pietrelcina in Italy, whose body was exhumed in 2008 and displayed in a glass sarcophagus; distressed pilgrims tried to sue the church authorities for commercialising the shrine.
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Last July, archaeologists and Egyptian officials opened a recently discovered 2,000-year-old sarcophagus, and a British man quickly started a petition asking to drink the not-at-all haunted red sludge that the box contained.
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"We need to drink the red liquid from the cursed dark sarcophagus in the form of some sort of carbonated energy drink so we can assume its powers and finally die," Innes McKendrick wrote on Change.
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"We are hoping it will remain in good condition and survive for many more centuries to come," said Kate Ballenger, the house manager at Blenheim Palace, in a statement announcing the discovery of the sarcophagus piece.
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The Polks' grave, which is currently tucked away on a grassy patch, was designed by William Strickland, the noted Greek Revival architect who designed the state Capitol and George Washington's sarcophagus at Mount Vernon in Virginia.
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Cultured Traveler As I stood alone in the silent, darkened King's Chamber of the Great Pyramid of Giza, staring into the sarcophagus that had been hollowed from red granite at least 4,500 years ago, my thoughts swirled.
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A cryptic black sarcophagus unearthed in Egypt has been opened — and revealed to host three skeletons, and a pool of sewage water so putrid excavators were unable to open the tomb without assistance from Egyptian military engineers.
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That view was shared by Mao, who argued that coffin-making was a waste of wood and money and that elaborate burials fostered superstition (ironically, his embalmed body now lies in a glass sarcophagus in central Beijing).
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Earlier this summer, an ominous-looking black granite sarcophagus was unearthed in Alexandria, Egypt—and, for more than three weeks, archaeologists, antiquities officials, and everyone who has seen The Mummy trilogy debated whether it should be opened.
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"We need to drink the red liquid from the cursed dark sarcophagus in the form of some sort of carbonated energy drink so we can assume its powers and finally die," Innes McKendrick wrote in a Change.
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Read more: Chernobyl's 'sarcophagus,' which helped contain the spread of radiation, is being dismantled because it's teetering on collapseRead more: It looks like the Russians are trying to hide the truth about that nuclear accident in Nyonoksa
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For at least seven years, Bjorn Norgaard, a sculptor, has been working on a glass sarcophagus carried by silver elephants that is designed to hold both the queen and the prince in Roskilde Cathedral after their deaths.
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Its carvings tell the story of Theseus and the minotaur, which probably was more fun for the children of the tour group to discuss than the elaborate battle scene of the lidless sarcophagus nearby would have been.
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Photo: North-Eastern Federal University in YakutskWhen a mysterious 2,000-year-old black sarcophagus was discovered back in July, the internet went wild with pleas not to open it for fear that it may unleash an ancient curse.
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As a final, strange aside, the discovery of the reddish-brown water inside the sarcophagus prompted a strange request; an international petition, which garnered thousands of signatures, demanded that the Egyptian government allow people to drink the liquid.
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In a Facebook post , Dr. Mostafa Waziri, general secretary of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, announced that the 6-foot high sarcophagus, which is 8.7-feet long and 5.4-feet wide, is the largest ever found in Alexandria.
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The show consists of a full-scale monumental ceramic sarcophagus of the artist with her future cat, and a few other vitrines for colonies of beetles that are living on a diet, including Lin's dried skin and fingernails.
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Many statues of the generalissimo were removed; about 100 of them are now dotted round a park next to one of Chiang's villas in Cihu district in northern Taiwan, where his body lies in a black marble sarcophagus.
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At the entrance to the steel chamber, a dozen sarcophagus-size stones — originally quarried for Edo Castle, which is now the site of Tokyo's Imperial Palace — are arranged in a circular formation Sugimoto says was inspired by Stonehenge.
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In the front window are relics of the country left behind: a large replica of King Tut's sarcophagus, a bust of Nefertiti in her turquoise cap-crown, a hookah coiled in on itself ("decoration only," Mr. Youssef said).
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Today, a representative for the Danish royal family announced that Queen Margarethe's husband, 83, has elected not to be buried next to her when his time comes, in a designed-just-for-them sarcophagus at Roskilde Cathedral in Denmark.
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Per the Times, officials admit the recovery plan—involving the complete destruction of the plant, rather than simply building a concrete sarcophagus around it as the Russians did in Chernobyl—will take decades and tens of billions of dollars.
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The FBI was apparently acting on a tip that Miller's collection of Aztec figurines, old pottery, and even an Egyptian sarcophagus included some pieces that were illegal for private citizens to own, so they decided to take a look.
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The discovery of the sarcophagus on a construction site last month was a rare find in Alexandria, a fabled port city where most traces of Egypt's ancient civilizations have crumbled into the waves or lie buried beneath urban sprawl.
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While the sculpture show was in the Villa's exhibition space and not integrated with the collection, other museums are combining ancient and modern works in single, far smaller exhibitions, as the Gardner did with the sarcophagus and the video.
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On the plastered walls inside the tomb was some fairly recent graffiti in Hebrew script, the verses of a religious song, along with an emoji-like smiley face, plus a Star of David sketched over Hazana's plain rectangular sarcophagus.
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The implication is that, perhaps, the clean up will move faster if Tepco's energy and the government's money is redirected to chemistry, biology, and so-called "safe containment," building some sort of structure around Fukushima Daiichi like the "sarcophagus" around Chernobyl.
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While your character can detect the spirits of the dead when they are very close, to "see" them at a distance requires the help of a Bridge Baby (a BB) who is entombed within a small glass sarcophagus worn by couriers.
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" It connected to the "Sepulchral Chamber" presided over by Soane's prized Egyptian sarcophagus of Seti I. He boasts that at "no inconsiderable expense and difficulty, this unique monument was transported from Egypt to England and placed in the British Museum.
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Drawing on archives opened in the wake of Ukraine's revolution of 2013-14, plus first-hand recollections, he scrupulously reconstructs the calamity, from the plant's rushed construction to the erection of a new "sarcophagus" over the failed reactor three decades later.
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On April 26, 1986, the core of a reactor opened at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, releasing enormous amounts of radioactive materialIn the months after the disaster, workers scrambled to build a covering, or "sarcophagus," to prevent the spread of contaminants.
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According to one account, Italian merchants stole his bones from a damaged sarcophagus (pictured above) during the first crusade in 1087 and brought them home where they've been stored at the Basilica of Saint Nicholas in Bari, Italy ever since.
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CAIRO — Jet black and glistening with mud, the giant granite sarcophagus sits at the bottom of a pit in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, perfectly sealed despite being 2,000 years old, prompting ever-wilder theories about what secrets might lie inside.
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ARCHAEOLOGISTS OPEN &aposCURSED&apos ANCIENT EGYPTIAN SARCOPHAGUS After looking at the 10 buried bodies, which were found near the medieval church of San Michele del Golfo, Moździoch and his team found that three of the bodies were female and two were children.
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Most of the chamber's relics were removed after its discovery in 1922, but some artifacts remain, including the quartzite sarcophagus and its granite lid, the gilded wooden coffin exterior, and the man himself, whose mummy is on display in an oxygen-free case.
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These brave firefighters, soldiers, janitors, and miners—the so-called "liquidators"—did everything from hosing down streets to felling trees to building a concrete sarcophagus around the exposed reactor ... all the while charged subatomic particles ravaged their cells and shortened their life spans.
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The Thing housed in a cinderblock sarcophagus in Texas Canyon, Arizona, was made by a man named Homer Tate, a jack-of-all-trades who got into the business of making mermaids, mummies, and shrunken heads from mud and bones in the 1940s.
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Since archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the 3,000-year-old tomb in 1922, millions of tourists have traveled to see its magnificent wall paintings, its quartzite sarcophagus, and the mummy of King Tutankhamen himself, displayed in an oxygen-free case in the burial chamber.
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More than thirty years after the world's worst nuclear disaster, a crumbling concrete and lead shelter called the "sarcophagus" that spared Europeans from fatal radioactive fallout has been replaced—by an even larger, more immense steel structure known as the New Safe Confinement.
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Manning, who said the archaeological find "looked like a non-elite burial," has a theory on its origins: that although the sarcophagus appeared to date back to the Ptolemaic Kingdom (305 B.C. to 30 B.C.), it may have been used more than once.
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No body was found in the sarcophagus, which was made of volcanic tuff rock, but according to at least one legend, Romulus vanished into the sky following his death to become the God Quirinus, meaning that possibly he never had a tomb.
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Not everyone was a mighty pharaoh or prosperous merchant able to afford a fancy sarcophagus made of stone or a coffin made of imported wood that was painted with elaborate designs of Osiris, god of the underworld, and stored in a grandiose tomb.
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Open the enormous wooden door of your Malibu mansion' head straight past the gargoyles and the wrought-iron Catherine wheel' take a right at the Academy Award sarcophagus…and you'll be right in the closet that launched a million gay men out of their own.
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It was a modest and unadorned structure that had none of the glamour of the Temple of Baal; a 3D reconstruction of the rather plain sarcophagus that held the remains of its eponymous saint won't be coming to a major Western city any time soon.
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Egypt has had no shortage of archaeological discoveries lately: Among other finds, a 2,000-year-old, perfectly sealed sarcophagus was unearthed in July; the tomb of a prominent priestess was found in February; and the grave of a royal goldsmith was discovered last September.
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Participants will see a Roman marble sarcophagus like the one inside which Claudia conceals her violin case; a carved 18th-century bed reminiscent of where the runaways sleep; and "Young Archer," a statue attributed to Michelangelo, similar to the one central to the novel's mystery.
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Participants will see a Roman marble sarcophagus like the one inside which Claudia conceals her violin case; a carved 210th-century bed reminiscent of where the runaways sleep; and "Young Archer," a statue attributed to Michelangelo, similar to the one central to the novel's mystery.
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A team of international Egyptologists, led by Patrizia Piacentini of the University of Milan in Italy and Abelmanaem Said of the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities, discovered the sarcophagus in a necropolis more than 15 feet below ground on the western bank of the Nile River.
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Basil E. Frankweiler Step Two: Scatter your belongings: Good hiding places include the many urns and terracotta kraters in the Greek Wing, or this marble sarcophagus, carved in Rome in the early 300s, when Christianity was first recognized as a legal faith within the Roman Empire.
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Reed was charged in 2015 with hundreds of criminal counts for using some bond proceeds to travel the country and buy a bizarre list of roughly 10,000 artifacts, including a sarcophagus, a suit of armor and a "vampire hunting kit," that he said were destined for museums.
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For only five dollars, visitors to the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell, NM can sift through the soil collected from an alleged flying saucer crash site, ogle at the patterns in a large Mayan sarcophagus lid, and find a prop alien corpse on a hospital gurney.
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Nick's latest reckless grave-robbing venture in Iraq ends with him, Chris, and weirdly undefined but bossy Jenny Halsey (Annabelle Wallis) in Ahmanet's long-hidden tomb, where they ignore a series of warning signs and evil portents in their rush to get Ahmanet's sarcophagus out of the country.
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Clicking and dragging your mouse lets you examine the details in each room in 360˚, albeit from one fixed perspective; ScanLAB has also scanned and digitized select objects on display, from the famed alabaster sarcophagus of King Seti to cork and plaster models of the ancient Temple of Vesta.
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The archaeologist was Elena Korka, now the director of Greece's Office for Supervision of Antiquaries and Private Archaeological Collections, and the sarcophagus led her and her team to more rich tombs, ceramics and other finds and finally to the announcement last week that they had uncovered Tenea itself.
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In the immediate panicked aftermath, and in the months of crisis and confusion until the completion seven months later of the concrete-and-steel sarcophagus that entombed the reactor's lethal remains, the heroes and villains numbered in the hundreds, and the supporting cast in the hundreds of thousands.
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After airlifting the sarcophagus out of the desert, with little care for the fact that it's an important artifact, Nick and Chris realize they've been cursed by the newly awoken princess, leading to a cat-and-mouse game between Princess Ahmanet (Sofia Boutella) and Nick, whose soul she needs.
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All morning, he and his team had been setting up another, equally large area, in which objects were artfully displayed: cabinets with cunning carpentry, suspended from the rafters so that they appeared to float in space; an elegant sofa, lit as reverentially as a sarcophagus at the Met.
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In High Fidelity's enhanced replica, you could theoretically move in and redecorate; plus, there are loads of virtual props, which a designer can add for a fee—such as the laser pointer that Rosedale brandished to direct my attention to the sarcophagus or to the candles on the table.
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Stick and Elektra show up in Season 2 to try and enlist Matt into this eternal war with The Hand, but Elektra is ultimately killed by Nobu and her body is stolen by The Hand, who stash her in a creepy stone sarcophagus which is somehow intended to help resurrect her.
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Apparently, a Great Dane has been implicated in the event, along with a group of meddling teen-agers who were investigating mysterious noises in a haunted mansion and somehow opened the sarcophagus in which the mummy in question, Amenhotep, was resting after a long shift working the giant construction crane.
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Traces of the glory of these feline goddesses were found in a 2019 excavation of a necropolis (city of the dead) in the deserts of Aswan in Egypt, where archaeologists unearthed pieces of a 2,000-year-old sarcophagus lid that had been decorated with the colorful face of a leopard.
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The arch, which was first designed more than two decades ago and has been under construction since 2010, covers the deteriorating steel and concrete sarcophagus that had been hastily built after a botched test at the power plant led to an explosion and fire that sent plumes of radioactive ash across Europe 30 years ago.
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The Titanic disaster has long fanned conspiracy theories, among them that it was not the Titanic that sank on April 15, 1912, but, rather the Olympic, its sister ship; that the Titanic was torpedoed by a German U-boat; or that the ship was brought down by a sarcophagus containing an Egyptian priestess's mummy.
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Less than two months after the disaster, about Soviet cleanup workers sprang into action to build a "sarcophagus," or massiveRead more: Chernobyl's power plant managers 'hid' their radiation levels so they could protect cleanup workers, according to former deputy directors workers scrambled to contain the damage without getting hurt, they failed to seal off the building's joints.
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The Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities has dated the artifact to the rule of the Ptolemaic dynasty, the Greek royal family that reigned over Egypt for about three centuries following the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. The sarcophagus is unmarked, although a badly eroded alabaster bust found nearby might be a likeness of its occupant.
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The AR layer for the popular 2,000-year-old occupant of the Egyptian gallery doesn't just offer the morbid fascination of visualizing the skeleton hidden beneath wrappings and a sarcophagus; it actually reveals information that would otherwise be invisible to the viewer, such as the skull fracture discovered by taking a CAT scan of the remains.
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I took a last look at the looming apparition of the bus, the great brown sarcophagus of the American highway, and was momentarily taken by the facile charm of its standing as a metaphor for life itself: an incomprehensible and futile journey, in a vast coffin-shaped recreational vehicle, out of one nowhere into some other.
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