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The Xerxes I inscription at Van, also known as the XV Achaemenid royal inscription, [1] is a trilingual cuneiform inscription of the Achaemenid King Xerxes I (r. 486–465 BC).
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Holy site in Hebron, Palestine "Machpelah" redirects here. For the historic site in the US, see Machpelah (Townsville, North Carolina). For other uses, see Machpelah Cemetery. Cave of the Patriarchs מְעָרַת הַמַּכְפֵּלָה الحرم الإبراهيمي Southern view of the ...
The Tomb of Thutmose II, discovered by Ashrad Omar [1] in 2022 and attributed in 2025, is a royal ancient Egyptian tomb located in the Wadi Gabbanat el-Qurud area west of Luxor. [2] The tomb, also known by its tomb number Wadi C-4 , was identified through a joint Egyptian–British archaeological expedition.
The tomb is entered via a 4 m (13 ft) deep shaft and a staircase that descends to a depth of 8.50 m (27.9 ft), followed by two straight corridors with a total length of 13.40 m (44.0 ft). [94] Walls of stacked stones divided the corridor from the stairs and the corridors from each other. The first corridor is long, low and roughly cut.
Approach to the entrance of WV23. In 1816, WV23 was discovered by chance by the Italian explorer Giovanni Belzoni. [5] After visiting WV22, the tomb of Amenhotep III, he moved further into the valley "to examine the various places where water descends from the desert into the valleys after rain" [5] and upon finding an isolated pile of stones, probed the depth with his cane.
The first modern depiction of the tomb, published by James Justinian Morier in 1811, entitled the "Tomb of Madre Suleiman". The tomb was renamed to as the Tomb of Suleiman's Mother (referring either to Caliph Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik or the biblical Bathsheba, mother of Solomon) after the Muslim conquest of Persia and the subsequent fall of Sasanian Empire in order to save it from the ...
Tomb of Casimir IV in the Wawel Cathedral. The tomb of Casimir IV Jagiellon (Polish: Nagrobek Kazimierza IV Jagiellończyka), located in Wawel Cathedral, Kraków, is a late 15th century masterpiece created in red marble by German sculptor Veit Stoss in the late Gothic style.
Noah's tomb is located in the town of Nakhchivan. The mausoleum was originally part of a medieval Armenian church structure, monastery, and pilgrimage site dating back to the 12th or 13th-century. [ 3 ] 19th century Russian and European sources such as the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary and John Foster Fraser noted that the local ...