• This is a list of necropoleis sorted by country. Although the name is sometimes also used for some modern cemeteries, this list includes only ancient...
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    Necropolis (redirect from Necropoleis)
    A necropolis (pl.: necropolises, necropoles, necropoleis, necropoli) is a large, designed cemetery with elaborate tomb monuments. The name stems from...
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    presidents of the United States List of extant papal tombs List of mausolea List of necropoleis List of non-extant papal tombs List of tombs and mausoleums τύμβος...
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  • Rabaul (Bita Paka) War Cemetery Lists portal Taphophilia List of mausolea List of necropoleis "Cementerio del Oeste (archived copy)". Archived from the...
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    Narmer - Gamal Abdel Nasser - Nebiriau II - Necho I - Necho II - List of necropoleis - Nectanebo I - Nectanebo II - Neferefre - Neferhotep I - Neferhotep...
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    Aytap (redirect from History of Aytap)
    remains of the Ancient Roman sewers, which are well preserved. In the northern hills of Aytap, there is a necropolis (see List of necropoleis). There...
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    Selinunte (category Colonies of Megara Hyblaea)
    northeast of the Sanctuary of the Malophoros, has been excavated recently. Around Selinus some areas used as necropoleis can be identified. Buffa (end of the...
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    afterward. There are two necropoleis of Lycian rock-cut tombs in the form of temple fronts carved into the vertical faces of cliffs at Myra: the river...
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  • with only a few didactic words having English plurals in -eis: poleis, necropoleis, and acropoleis (though acropolises is by far the most common English...
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    foundations of Fustat and later Cairo, both built farther north, were laid with stones of dismantled temples and ancient necropoleis of Memphis. In the...
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    of Strathleven, the planning of the cemetery was started by the Merchants' House of Glasgow in 1831, in anticipation of a change in the law. The Cemeteries...
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    Shoshenq I (category Pharaohs of the Twenty-second Dynasty of Egypt)
    "House of Millions of Years of Shoshenq, Beloved of Amun" was probably the forecourt and pylon of the Ptah temple, which, if the royal necropoleis at Tanis...
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    Kaş (category Districts of Antalya Province)
    was a member of the Lycian League, and its importance during this time is confirmed by the presence of one of the richest Lycian necropoleis.[citation needed]...
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  • This is a list of cemeteries (or graveyards) in Pakistan. Old British Cemetery, Gilgit CDA Graveyard, Burma Town DHA II Graveyard, Jinnah Boulevard H-8...
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    whereas the surrounding valleys of Hațeg, Hunedoara, Făgăraș, Bârsa, Sf. Gheorghe and Ciuc have neither necropoleis nor settlements but only tombs or...
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    Scythian culture (category Iron Age cultures of Europe)
    flat necropoleis were more common than kurgans, with Scythian Neapolis containing three of these. Among the other dozen of Late Scythian necropoleis, the...
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    World Heritage Site, and added Cyrene in 2017 to its List of World Heritage in Danger. Earliest traces of Cyrene date back to about 700 BC, it is considered...
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  • Locri (category Municipalities of the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria)
    a defensive wall was built. Outside the city there are several necropoleis, some of which are very large. Its renowned lawgiver Zaleucus decreed that...
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    Umbri (category History of le Marche)
    also by the discovery, at the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries, of one of the larger mixed burial necropoleis (Urnfield culture and burial fields)...
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    Atasoy, Sümer; Temür, Akın; Yiğitpaşa, Davut (2019). Settlements and Necropoleis of the Black Sea and Its Hinterland in Antiquity: Select Papers from the...
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    trees. The different necropoleis mark the zones of settlement at Dougga. There are five areas that have been identified as necropoleis: the first in the...
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    Daunians (category Geography of Apulia)
    A genetic study published in 2022 examined DNA extracted from three necropoleis: Ordona, Salapia and San Giovanni Rotondo, which during the Iron Age...
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    Marzabotto (category CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list)
    quarters, and these in turn into blocks or insulae. Necropoleis were found on the east and north of the site. The place was partially inhabited later by...
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    extracted and typed the hypervariable region of mitochondrial DNA of 14 individuals buried in two Etruscan necropoleis, analyzing them along with previously...
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    Vetulonia (category CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list)
    town. The rich votive furnishing from the two extensive necropoleis attest to the importance of Vetulonia's elite. The Mura dell'Arce (cyclopean walls)...
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    Naqsh-e Rostam (category Necropoleis)
    last decade of his reign. Like several other inscriptions by Darius, the territories controlled by the Achaemenid Empire are specifically listed, which formed...
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    Preslav, including heads of lions and lionesses. The main sources for Bulgarian domestic use-oriented pottery are the necropoleis at Novi Pazar, Devnya,...
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    industrial zone of Varna (approximately half a kilometre from Lake Varna and 4 km from the city centre), internationally considered one of the key archaeological...
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    north of the city, making it one of the largest known Greek necropoleis. The southern section has been encroached upon by the growing city of Shahat...
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  • Bura archaeological site (category World Heritage Tentative List for Niger)
    consists of many individual necropoleis with coffins crested by unusually distinctive terra cotta statuettes. The main necropolis itself has a diameter of about...
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