sarcophagus

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

News arrives that, back in Egypt, after a sarcophagus was cast out in a plane crash, Katie turned up inside the coffin.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

Inside the mind-blowing 2,000-year-old sarcophagus that was just unsealed.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 25, 2026

But he said that "the risk is low" because contaminated dust is contained within a thick concrete "sarcophagus" which is covered by the protective shield.

From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2025

Even so, it makes me feel like a mummy in a sarcophagus.

From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

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

They stumbled upon an astonishing and unexpected scene: bees that had been mummified in subterranean sarcophagi for nearly 3,000 years.

From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2023

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

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

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

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

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