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Naqsh-e Rustam near the city of Shiraz, Iran: Naqsh-e Rustam: Artaxerxes II and Artaxerxes III: emperors of the Achaemenid dynasty: Persepolis near the city of Shiraz, Iran: Persepolis: Mausolus: Persian satrap of Caria: Halicarnassus (present Bodrum, Turkey); the origin of the word "mausoleum" – the tomb is now destroyed Mausoleum of Maussollos
All these types of tomb were built from large slabs of rock which were uncut or worked only slightly. In each case, there was a "doorway" made from two large stones facing each other. The doorway led to an inner chamber, or a passage and chamber, lined with flat slabs.
The passage tomb tradition is believed to have originated in the French region of Brittany. It was introduced to other regions such as Ireland by colonists from Brittany. [2] Tustrup-dysserne, the largest passage grave in Eastern Jutland, is an example of Funnelbeaker culture circa 3200 BC.
The word dolmen entered archaeology when Théophile Corret de la Tour d'Auvergne used it to describe megalithic tombs in his Origines gauloises (1796) using the spelling dolmin (the current spelling was introduced about a decade later and had become standard in French by about 1885).
The entrance of a tomb at the Theban Necropolis—TT 353. The entrance was built by the order of Sen-en-Mut, 97.36m long and 41.93m deep 3D laser scan profile of the Hypogeum of the Volumnus family Tablinum inside Hypogeum of the Volumni, in the northern end of the crypt 3D image of Tablinum inside Hypogeum of the Volumni, cut from a laser scan Entrance of the Three Brothers' hypogeum in ...
Cruciform passage graves describe a complex example of prehistoric passage grave found in Ireland, west Wales and Orkney and built during the later Neolithic, from around 3500 BC and later. [1] They are distinguished by a long passage leading to a central chamber with a corbelled roof. From this, burial chambers extend in three directions ...
Originating as a prehistoric settlement, Orchomenus became one of the powerful cities in West Arcadia along with Tegea and Mantineia. The heyday of the city was between 7th–6th century BC and it became a rich city which minted its own currency. Its ruins are near the modern village of Orchomenos (before 1963: Καλπάκι, Kalpaki [1]).
This is a list of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites around the world by year of inscription, selected during the annual sessions of the World Heritage Committee. [1] [2] The first World Heritage Site in the list is the Galápagos Islands. [3]