sarcophagus
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Her ornate sarcophagus, which has been on display almost continuously since 1820, will remain on public view as a "fine work of late period ancient Egyptian funerary art".
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
The remains attributed to Samuel will be laid in a white sarcophagus made from marble quarried in the Prilep region of North Macedonia, public broadcaster BNT said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
Inside the mind-blowing 2,000-year-old sarcophagus that was just unsealed.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 25, 2026
A room near the church’s apse contains fragments of a sarcophagus believed to be St. Neophytos’s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
Kronos’s golden sarcophagus glowed faintly—the only source of light in the room.
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
The Hunterian said excavators in the 19th century occasionally swapped over remains from different coffins, with better preserved specimens placed in the most intact or ornate sarcophagi.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
Excavations uncovered a funerary complex consisting of three limestone burial chambers containing Roman-era mummies and decorated wooden sarcophagi.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
Among the bronze and marble objects are portraits, over-life-size figures, sarcophagi reliefs and animal sculptures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2025
Items on view include Champollion’s personal notes and a 3,000-year-old measuring rod he used to understand Egyptian mathematics, and priceless antiquities such as vessels, sarcophagi and mummy bandages.
From New York Times ● Oct. 9, 2022
The pounding of her feet echoed through the tomb as she ran between the sarcophagi for Damaris, the sword of the ancient king.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
One of the two sarcophaguses was decorated with images of grapes and the other with dolphins said A'utul, whose organisation is supervising the work with help from French aid agency Premiere Urgance International.
From Reuters ● Jul. 24, 2023
Hercules, triumphs of, figured on sarcophaguses, 231 & n.
From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Sidney Colvin
The general impression of the other marbles of the Capitoline Museum remains a composite of standing, sitting, stooping, and leaning figures, of urns and vases, of sarcophaguses and bas-reliefs.
From Roman Holidays, and Others by William Dean Howells
Many words ending in us that formerly were written with only the Latin plural, are now given an English plural also; as, focuses, foci; cactuses, cacti; sarcophaguses, sarcophagi; convolvuluses, convolvuli ; funguses, fungi; nucleuses, nuclei.
From Slips of Speech : a Helpful Book for Everyone Who Aspires to Correct the Everyday Errors of Speaking by John Hendricks Bechtel
Bedford, Duke of, carved sarcophaguses owned by, 231 n.
From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Sidney Colvin
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