Word: sarcophagi
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...delvers opened the small gold sarcophagi and found, as they knew they would find, that one had contained TutankhAmen's liver & gall bladder, another, his lungs & heart, another, his stomach & large intestine, the fourth his small intestine. They were the young king's last relics, removed at his mummification...
...ceremony was a simple one. A truck moved the two 5,000-lb. sarcophagi across the Marion cemetery where they had rested temporarily, President Harding's since 1923, Mrs. Harding's since 1926. Baptist ritual was read. Then guardsmen of the Tenth Infantry took their posts and the Marionites went home, again full of love and admiration for the jovial, handsome man whom today's young men and women of Marion can remember as a fond patter of heads and chucker of chins when he was Marion's leading citizen, then Ohio's Lieutenant Governor, then a U. S. Senator...
Near Deauville, modern playground, eleven 11th Century sarcophagi were found containing small women, giant...
...Fisher Wood of Pittsburgh. Their design calls for a circular mausoleum, 49 ft. high and 80 ft. in diameter. It will be supported by Doric columns and within will be an open court. In the court, two black marble slabs shaded by a single willow tree will cover the sarcophagi of the President and Mrs. Harding. A stair will lead down to a marble-lined crypt. The memorial will stand in a ten-acre park for which A. D. Taylor of Cleveland will be landscape gardener. They hope to open the memorial by Nov. 2, 1927, which would have been...
...Hungary, archaeologists discovered peasants of the village O-szöny, near Budapest, feeding pigs in Roman sarcophagi troughs, hoarding gems and jewelry dug from their cottage foundations, which were placed on the original foundations of Brigetio, a Roman city of 40,000 inhabitants. Some children scrabbled up pre-Roman vessels of solid gold, dated 800 B. C. by the Hungarian National Museum...