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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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002
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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Largest tomb in Japan and the world by area. Keyhole-shaped, surrounded by three moats. Imperial protection means almost no excavation has occurred.
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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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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 necropolis. 65 tombs known, including Tutankhamun's, found by Howard Carter in 1922 still mostly intact.
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