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sarcophagus

[sahr-kof-uh-guhs] / sɑrˈkɒf ə gəs /




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He later helped build the first sarcophagus covering the reactor, as well as the second one, which was damaged by a Russian drone strike in 2025.

From Barron's • Apr. 25, 2026

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

A room near the church’s apse contains fragments of a sarcophagus believed to be St. Neophytos’s.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

Kings and commoners alike made pilgrimages to this spot to gaze at the conqueror’s unspoiled remains in their golden sarcophagus.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro




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