Demis Roussos

Sleep is the secret of life! I must have a comfortable bed, a room at exactly 60 degrees, and complete darkness like a tomb to sleep. If I don't get 10 hours, then I'm miserable and I make everyone around me miserable.

Greek Musician

Patti Davis

My father's body lies in a stone tomb high on a hill. People walk by, pause, think their own thoughts about him and move on, back to their own lives. I can never move on. He is everywhere.

American Celebrity

Josh Gates

Snakes are a very real thing in Egyptian tombs, they like to hang out underground.

Robert Smithson

Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.

American Artist

Josh McDowell

Both Jewish and Roman sources and traditions admit an empty tomb.

American Writer

Suzy Menkes

There is something sad about clothes laid in a tomb of trunks.

British Journalist

James Beattie

And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.

Scottish Poet

Robert Browning

English Poet

Margaret Cavendish

English Writer

Giacomo Casanova

Italian Celebrity

Use 'tomb' to respectfully refer to burial sites, especially historic or monumental ones.

Respectful Referencing

'Tomb' isn't used for places where ashes are kept after cremation; that's an urn or a niche.

Not for Cremation

Recognize that 'tomb' may have cultural importance, often linked to rituals or historical events.

Cultural Significance

Use 'tomb-like' to describe somewhere very quiet, still, or lifeless, often to express unease.

Metaphorical Use

'Tomb' can imply negative feelings to describe places that should be lively but aren't.

Emotive Descriptions

Use 'tomb' informally to emphasize how quiet or somber a setting appears.

Colloquial Atmosphere

 got him into trouble. His enemies had him arrested, and he was executed by Rome in the standard means by which rabble-rousers were put to death, crucifixion. But shortly after he was buried, women found his tomb empty and quickly spread word, convinced that he had been raised from the dead.

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 this chamber answers some questions but poses many more it also suggests that other caves may be hidden nearby awaiting discovery the key to this though is thinking that these are tombs not caves they were dug into the shafts as I pointed out and what's important

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 of gallons of water per year and cisterns that allowed them to have incredible trade amass great wealth and build tombs like this seen in Indiana Jones so my colleagues asked me to participate in a project looking at satellite imagery from this site I said

The history buried under...

 be able to take great tidings learn more about the teachings of people who have passed before them and achieve greater ascendancy along life's great path of course traveling into stung going into some of these tombs going to some of the caves finding the

 people will continue to search for it I think would be spectacular to be able to find the man who changed the face of history what he did for the world was just absolutely extraordinary perhaps the tomb hunters are inching

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 after the rulers passed away ancient egyptians believed they then became gods to prepare their journey into the afterlife the rulers constructed elaborate tombs including the great pyramids at giza and underground

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 in advance what the right equipment was for example but if we had a problem diving here there's only one entry and exit it's a tomb door that had to be shored up we had to make a substantial

Inside the Burial...

 Maria has spotted the fresh tracks of a snake in the sand, and it could still be hiding somewhere in the tomb. John joins them to lend some support.

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 photo eight years ago I came to a tomb for the first time and I got fascinated by this place there was something in science that immediately got my

Flying Over The Cloud...

 It's all there in gospels A Magdalene girl comes to pay her respects But her mind is awhirl When she finds the tomb empty Straw had been rolled

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