The number of skeletons hitherto disinterred in Pompeii and its suburbs is three hundred.
Of the historical records of that powerful but short-lived dynasty we have nothing left but the few imperfect and rotten quippus which are occasionally disinterred from the huacas.
I was told that formerly many of the votive offerings had been disinterred from the sand in front of the building.
It was entire, but the men, not knowing how to handle this object, when first disinterred broke it to pieces.
I brought away with me from Pachacamac about half a dozen of the most remarkably shaped of these skulls, as also some portions of mummified corpses, which the negroes had disinterred in my presence.
March, 1859, nearly two and a half years later, had been disinterred in a state of complete preservation.
As to the companions of Xisuthros, they came to Babylon, disinterred the writings left at Sippara, founded numerous cities, built temples, and restored Babylon.
They restored it, and disinterred the writings left (by the pious obedience of Xisuthros) in Shurippak, the city of the Sun.
On several occasions, relics of bronze have been disinterred which have every appearance of being the framework of helmets.
The "Crusader" himself wasdisinterred in 1846, in consequence of some repairs within the chancel of the church, and found to have been buried cross-legged.
Many fragments of pottery have from time to time been disinterred from the site of the crannogs in the lake of Drumskimly, county Fermanagh: one of them is figured in the Journal Royal Hist.
Two single-piece canoes were disinterred from this site, and portion of an ancient harp of wood.
From the grave of hope she disinterred a half dozen of the spider-web handkerchiefs to which a few hours previously she had bid a touching adieu.
Letty was already wearing the white filmy thing with the copper-sash, buried with solemn rites on the previous night, but disinterred that morning, which did very well as a tea-gown.
The records of the theatres where Italians played at Paris supply titles of another set, and a few have been disinterred from miscellaneous sources.
Mr. Nimmo and I waited through four months, making continued applications to the best European dealers in old books, before a complete copy was at last disinterred from a Venetian library.
The usual horrors of a long siege were manifest; not only did they devour everything that was eatable, but even gnawed at their own flesh and disinterred corpses.
The corpses of Marie and Theodore after being exposed to the public, were interred in the convent of St Varsonophee on the Srietenka, and the disinterred body of Boris Godunov brought to the same resting-place.
They think of these personages and these events; and they lean strongly to the belief that the disinterred ancient city near Mycenæ, and some of the treasures brought to light by Dr Schliemann, may be veritable tokens of the days of Agamemnon.
Recently in Muzaffarnagar, a corpse buried in the unorthodox way was disinterred by force, and the matter finally came before the courts.
In the Indian Hills, in case of illness a stake is driven down into the earth where four roads meet, and certain drugs and grains are buried close by, which are speedily disinterred and eaten by crows.
It is a fragment of a copy of the myth which was made for the library of Nineveh some eight centuries after the rest of the story, which has now been disinterred on the banks of the Nile, had been buried under the ruins of Khu-n-Aten's city.
Memphis was raised and its companion statue disinterred must refer to the Paper published by Major Arthur H.
The mounds from which the monuments had been disinterred are about twelve miles to the west of Ismailiyeh, and are called Tel el-Maskhuteh, "the Mound of the Image.
Among the potsherdsdisinterred from the rubbish-trench of the temple of Apollo were portions of a large and beautiful bowl dedicated to "Phanes, the son of Glaukos.
The body of an Indian was disinterred and eaten; nay, at last, the colonists preyed on the dead bodies of each other.
Behold this broad plate of iron; upon it is graven an inscription but lately disinterred from the heaps of stone and ruin, which--O shame to Rome!
It has been possible to reconstruct at the Louvre two entire friezes disinterred at Susa before the façade of the apadâna of the palace of Artaxerxes Mnemon.
The recent excavations have disinterred a large quantity of them, and, by the side of cylinders brought from the continent by commerce, some have been found which were certainly manufactured in the island.
The temple of Golgoi (Athieno), the ruins of which were disinterred by Cesnola, was a rectangular building constructed of bricks dried in the sun; the substructure alone was of stone.
They went to the spot where he had been buried, disinterred him and carried him to the island of St Hélène, where they performed their usual ceremony, which is to sing and dance over the grave with festivities and banquets following.
While scholars and critics were disputing over a few doubtful texts, the libraries of the old civilised world of the East were lying underground, waiting to be disinterred by the excavator and interpreted by the decipherer.
That iss why mademoiselle has often disinterred the pupæ of this largest and strangest of our native sphinx-moths.
Early in the proceedings somebody had disinterred brandy and Schnapps from under a bunk.
The Indians of Canada and Louisiana designate the Mastodon by the name of "Father of the Bulls," probably on account of the bones of cattle disinterred with his own.
Doghanludere and Beikeui in the Phrygian rock-monument country; at the first is a sculptured rock-panel with a few pictographs in relief; at the latter a fragment of an inscription in relief was disinterred from a mound.
Kolitolu Yaila, near Ilghin; block inscribed in relief, disinterred from mounds apparently marking a camp or palace-enclosure.
A large collection of clay tablets has been found, similar to those disinterred from the mounds of Nineveh and Babylonia, and like the latter inscribed in cuneiform characters and in the Assyro-Babylonian language.
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