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Enter burial landscapes ranging from royal tombs to vast cemeteries, each preserving evidence of belief, status, craft, and remembrance.
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Neolithic complex on the bend of the Boyne, including Newgrange, Knowth, and Dowth. Some of the densest megalithic art in Europe.
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Three-level Roman-era necropolis carved into Alexandrian bedrock. Egyptian iconography fused with Greek and Roman, the most striking syncretic art surviving from antiquity.
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Enormous keyhole-shaped burial mound traditionally associated with Emperor Nintoku. Three moats surround it, and restricted access has left much of its interior unexcavated.
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Imperial burial complex of Emperor Wu of Han, dominated by a large truncated earthen mound and accompanied by satellite tombs and funerary remains.
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An unexcavated earthen pyramid. The Terracotta Army guards its perimeter; the tomb itself remains sealed.
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The richly furnished Early Bronze Age burial of Oshad, excavated in 1897 with gold, silver, animal figures, vessels, and evidence of far-reaching connections.
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Funerary sanctuary of King Antiochus I of Commagene, centred on a great summit tumulus and terraces lined with colossal figures of gods and royal ancestors.
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Cliff necropolis containing the rock-cut tombs of Achaemenid kings. Sasanian rulers later added monumental reliefs below the royal façades.
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Passage tomb older than the Giza pyramids. For about 17 minutes at winter solstice, sunlight illuminates the inner chamber.
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A rock-cut tomb west of the Great Pyramid where mummified ibises and other birds were deposited as offerings to the god Thoth. A cave system extends beyond.
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New Kingdom royal cemetery cut into the cliffs west of Luxor. More than sixty numbered tombs are known, including KV62, Tutankhamun's largely unplundered burial.
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