sarcophagus
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A concrete sarcophagus over reactor four was completed in just seven months after the accident.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2026
Inside the mind-blowing 2,000-year-old sarcophagus that was just unsealed.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 25, 2026
Yet collectively they suggest a frieze on an antique sarcophagus, aligned on the rosy ledge across the bottom of the painting, their heads forming a horizontal row with that of Jesus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
The boy king's gold-covered sarcophagus and his burial mask, inlaid with lapis lazuli, will take centre stage at Saturday's opening.
From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2025
The journalist didn’t think the Louvre’s security was any good, and to prove it, when the museum closed, he crawled inside the sarcophagus of an Egyptian king and stayed there until the morning.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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
The boy-king's priceless collection is yet to be displayed, but visitors can now see items varying from pharaonic statues to sarcophagi and mummified bodies.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2024
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
Here in the shop only great sarcophagi were built, and blocks of stone roughhewn to size, ready for the sculptors.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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
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 Bechtel, John Hendricks
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 Howells, William Dean
It reminds one of graves, and sarcophaguses, and cemeteries, and horrid things that rustle in coffin cloths, and mop and mow in corners.
From Portia or By Passions Rocked by Duchess
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 Colvin, Sidney
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