The idea of general intercommunication is negatived by the fact that the chief cemeteries are separated by low ground or valleys, where any subterranean galleries would be at once filled with water.
Subterranean cemeteries of the general character of those described are very frequent in all southern and eastern countries.
The relics having been removed, the visits of pilgrims naturally ceased, and by degrees the very existence of those wonderful subterranean cemeteries was forgotten.
Caruana, Ancient Pagan Tombs and Christian Cemeteries in the Islands of Malta (Malta, 1898), and A.
He would leave undisturbed segregated grave sites in the older sections of the cemeteries because integration would "constitute a breach of faith with the next of kin of those now interred.
On 15 April he directed that the new sections of national cemeteriesbe integrated.
The Quartermaster General reviewed the practice in 1946 and recommended a new policy specifically opening new sections of all national cemeteries to eligible citizens of all races.
Muenich, 1843,' quoted in Dennis' Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria, I.
In some of the cemeteries nearly all the dead are unknown.
Entire cemeterieshave been found in which urn-burial alone seems to have been practiced.
If these mounds were sometimes used as cemeteries of distinguished persons, they were also used as monuments with a view of perpetuating the recollection of some great transaction or event.
The burial places, or cemeteries are exceedingly abundant throughout the State.
In the summer of 1872 the writer visited one of these rock cemeteries in Middle Utah, which had been used for a period not exceeding fifteen or twenty years.
This faith was, in fact, one of the chief elements in the Egyptian religion--the element best known to us through the endless cemeteries which fill the desert from one end of Egypt to the other, and through the funerary inscriptions.
At Ancon, for instance, twenty miles north of Lima it is simply wonderful how extensive the cemeteries are.
Many of these cemeteries are of great antiquity, while similar stone graves are of quite recent date.
In some places the cemeteries cover very large areas.
Mr. Squier concludes, from the cemeteries at this place, that it was a holy place, to which pilgrims resorted from all parts of the empire so as to be laid to rest in holy ground.
It is not to be supposed that the mounds were the sole cemeteries of the people who built them.
Occasionally along the coast are found immense cemeteries in which the Incas buried their dead; and the contents of the graves are as well preserved as if their age were counted by weeks instead of centuries.
Formerly the legitimacy of a child could not be established without a certificate from the priest in whose parish it was born; and the cemeteries were closed to heretics.
There are individual tombs in North American cemeteries far more elegant than any in Uruguay; but, taken as a whole, this city of the dead is of a higher order.
The cemeteries of Beni-Hassan and of Eilithyia (El-Kab) are also in the Arab Chain.
The grave or other receptacle for the coffin is as plain and simple in the most sumptuous monuments of our cemeteries as in the most humble.
Champollion discovered the remains of two such cemeteries in the immediate neighbourhood of Sais.
Their sepulchral architecture was, of all their creations, the most original and the most characteristic of their genius, especially in the forms which we find in the cemeteries of the Ancient Empire.
The cemeteries were therefore established either upon a plateau surrounded by the desert, as in the case of Memphis and Abydos, or in the sides of the mountain ranges and in the ravines by which they were pierced, as at Thebes and Beni-Hassan.
Among the cemeteries of the right bank we may mention that of Tell-el-Amarna; where the tombs would have been too far from the city had they been dug in the Libyan Chain.
The Egyptian cemeteries were therefore placed on the left bank of the Nile, that is, in the west of the country.
We shall, therefore, find the ruling principle of Egyptian sepulchral architecture most clearly laid down in the cemeteries of Gizeh and Sakkarah.
To the enterprise of the same public-spirited gentleman, New Haven owes one of the most beautiful cemeteries in the world.
The cemeteries lie beyond the walls, where no hum from the city is heard, and where the dark cypresses overhanging the white marble tombs give an air of mourning and desolation to the scene.
On All Souls' Day, whether it be wet or dry, the French cemeteries are full of kneeling women draped in black; all praying for the repose of their dead relatives, after the manner of the Roman Catholics.
But you English don't go to the cemeteries to pray.
The fossil population of itscemeteries is very scanty.
The Tertiary lakes were also importantcemeteries of insects.
Moreover, only a fraction of the earth's cemeterieshave yet been opened.
There is no park system, and the cemeteries scattered through the city, being shaded with cypress trees, furnish about the only picnic grounds for the people.
In the neighborhood of the large cities the cemeteries cover many square miles, and as they are constantly added to and never diminished, they occupy an ever increasing area.
Cemeteries were not infrequently situated in the very midst of towns, or near the local supplies of drinking water.
It became necessary to issue orders to have shelters prepared in cemeteries under which bodies were required to be deposited and left for a certain number of hours before burial, in order to prevent this result.
Far beyond its natural range, as well as within it, the moss pink glows in gardens, cemeteriesand parks, wherever there are rocks to conceal or sterile wastes to beautify.
May not much of this be prevented by asylums for doubtful life, by the application of reagents, and by building vaults in our cemeteries instead of graves?
In some of the cemeteries mortuaries have been built, which are placed at the disposal of the public by the authorities, with the understanding that the corpses shall be taken from them as soon as possible.
All large cemeteries have chambers for the temporary deposit of bodies, but they are not under observation, as it is taken for granted that they are dead.
It appears, then, that the gods of the great cemeterieswere known {32} as Silence and the Lover of Silence, and both come down from the age of animal deities.
The jackal haunted the cemeteries on the edge of the desert, and so came to be taken as the guardian of the dead, and identified with Anubis, the god of departing souls.
The soil of cemeteries in the great cities of Europe has sometimes been raised several feet by the deposit of the dead during a few generations.
Such visions always indicate the approach of villages; but the villages prove to be as surprisingly small as the cemeteries are surprisingly large.
To-night the cemeteries will be all aglow with lights like the fires of a city for multitude.
They carry on their unholy revels in cemeteries and cremation grounds.
The tree was a special favourite with the early Musalman conquerors, and the finest specimens of it will be found in their cemeteries and near their original settlements.
These ancient cemeteries are exceedingly abundant throughout the State, often hundreds of graves may be found on a single hillside.
In the summer of 1872 the writer visited one of these rock cemeteries in middle Utah, which had been used for a period not exceeding fifteen or twenty years.
The population which had been gathered together there was of a peculiar character, and we can gather but a feeble idea of its nature from the surroundings of the cemeteries in our own great cities.
One of the cemeteries at Arvad contains a splendid specimen of this imported design.
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