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The Dilmun Burial Mounds is a necropolis in Bahrain dating back to the Dilmun era.
A Danish group was excavating the capital city of the Bronze Age when they opened some tumuli and discovered items dating to around 4100 - 3700 BP of the same culture. Many others began to excavate more of the graves, providing us with a view of the construction and content on these graves.
Each of the tumuli is composed of a central stone chamber that is enclosed by a low ring-wall and covered by earth and gravel. Size of the mounds varies, but the majority of them measure 15 by 30 ft (4.5 by 9 m) in diameter and are 3-6 ft (1-2 m) high. The smaller mounds usually contain only one chamber. The chambers are usually rectangular with one or two alcoves at the northeast end. Occasionally there are additional pairs of alcoves along the middle of the larger chambers.
Although the chambers usually contained one burial each, some contain several people and the secondary chambers often contain none. The deceased were generally laid with their head in the alcove end of the chamber and laying on their right side. The bodies were accompanied by few items. There were a few pieces of pottery and occasionally shell or stone stamp seals, baskets sealed with asphalt, ivory objects, stone jars, and copper weapons. The skeletons are representative of both sexes with a life expectancy of approximately 40 years.
Attempts to protect the burial mounds have run into opposition by religious fundamentalists who consider them unIslamic and have called for them to be concreted over for housing. During a parliamentary debate on 17 July 2005, the leader of the salafist Asalah party, Sheikh Adel Mouwdah, said "Housing for the living is better than the graves for the dead. We must have pride in our Islamic roots and not some ancient civilisation from another place and time, which has only given us a jar here and a bone there."
photography notes: long exposure 30seconds at dusk. PP with lightroom.
The colour version with bright blue sky looked lovely, while the black and white version creeps me out...
Taken with MIR-1B, front element reversed, probably wide open at f/2.8.
B&W conversion has blue channel subtracted to convert the blue sky into a night-time scene.
A necropolis is a large cemetery of an ancient or modern city, A Latin word literally meaning "city of the dead," The Glasgow Necropolis is a large hillside cemetery primarily occupied by the elite of the city's past.
The Colon Cemetery, or more fully in the Spanish language Cementerio de Cristóbal Colón, was founded in 1876 in the Vedado neighbourhood of Havana, Cuba on top of Espada Cemetery. Named for Christopher Columbus, the 140 acre (57 ha) cemetery is noted for its many elaborately sculpted memorials. It is estimated that today the cemetery has more than 500 major mausoleums, chapels, and family vaults.
The first impact of Colon Cemetery is a seemingly endless succession of tombs blinding white in the midday heat, few shade trees and nowhere to sit. In front of the main entrance, at the axes of the principal avenues Avenida Cristobal Colón, Obispo Espada and Obispo Fray Jacinto, stands the Central Chapel apparently modelled on Il Duomo in Florence. On every side rectangular streets lead geometrically to the cemetery’s 56 hectares, designed by Loira to define the rank and social status of the dead with distinct areas, almost city suburbs: priests, soldiers, brotherhoods, the wealthy, the poor, infants, victims of epidemics, pagans and the condemned. The best preserved and grandest tombs stand on or near these central avenues and their axes.
With more than 800,000 graves and 1 million interments, space in the Colon Cemetery is currently at a premium and as such after three years remains are removed from their tombs, boxed and placed in a storage building.
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A necropolis is a large cemetery of an ancient or modern city, A Latin word literally meaning "city of the dead," The Glasgow Necropolis is a large hillside cemetery primarily occupied by the elite of the city's past.
La Necrópolis de Glasgow es un cementerio victoriano de Glasgow. Está en una colina baja, al este de la Catedral de Glasgow.
La Necrópolis de Glasgow está en una tierra llamada ‘The Craigs’ la cual fue comprada por la Casa de los Comerciantes de Glasgow en 1650 y se convirtió en un parque público durante casi 200 años. El concepto de un cementerio jardín se basó en el Cementerio Pere la Chaise después de que un miembro de la Casa de los Comerciantes hubiera visitado París. La Necrópolis fue abierta oficialmente en 1833.
A necropolis is a large cemetery of an ancient or modern city, A Latin word literally meaning "city of the dead," The Glasgow Necropolis is a large hillside cemetery primarily occupied by the elite of the city's past.
Headless monument in The Glasgow Necropolis
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A steel gate protects a gave at the Glasgow Necropolis. Gates such as this are found throughout the cemetery.
A necropolis is a large cemetery of an ancient or modern city, A Latin word literally meaning "city of the dead," The Glasgow Necropolis is a large hillside cemetery primarily occupied by the elite of the city's past.
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Necropolis dating back to the talaiotic age around 700 BC. About 100 tombs of square, circular and horseshoe-shape were found at this site.
The rather picturesque Crematory Chapel and entrance to the Toronto Necropolis in Cabbagetown.
The Necropolis is a non-denominational public cemetery that was opened in 1850, making it one the oldest such cemeteries in the city. It contains the remains of more than 50,000 people. The crematorium was built in 1933.
The city established Toronto Necropolis to replace the overflowing Potter's Field, which opened in 1826 and was closed just 30 years later in 1855. Following the closure, they gradually moved all 6685 inhabitants elsewhere. This included the remains of "984 Early Settlers of the Town of York" who were relocated to the shiny new Toronto Necropolis. Incidentally, the only indication that Potter's Field ever existed is a plaque marking the former site on Bloor Street West.
Toronto Necropolis is the final resting place of many famous Torontonians, including William Lyon Mackenzie who was Toronto's first mayor and grandfather of Canada's longest-serving prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. Perhaps fittingly, grandpa Mackenzie was instrumental in the creation of Potter's Field.
Other famous inhabitants include Anderson Ruffin Abbot, the first black surgeon to be born in Canada; John Ross Robertson, the founder of the Toronto Telegram; George Brown, the founder of The Globe and Mail and one of the "fathers" of Canadian confederation; William Peyton Hubbard, the first black Toronto alderman; and several other mayors of Toronto.
The Necropolis also contains 34 Commonwealth war graves, mostly from World War I.
Anyway, it's a beautifully serene and leafy cemetery with lots of nooks and crannies to explore, and all manner of weird and wonderful grave markers and crypts. Definitely worth a look if you happen to be in the area.
This burial ground was always intended to be interdenominational and the first burial in 1832 was that of a Jew, Joseph Levi, a jeweller. In 1833 the first Christian burial was of Elizabeth Miles, stepmother of the Superintendent, George Mylne. After 1860, the first extensions east and south were to take up the Ladywell quarry and in 1877 and 1892/3, the final extensions to the north and south-east were constructed, doubling the size of the cemetery. The Necropolis is now 37 acres (15 ha).
50,000 burials have taken place at the Necropolis and most of 3,500 tombs have been constructed up to 14 feet deep, with stone walls and brickpartitions. On the top of the Necropolis tombs were blasted out of the rockface. In 1877 the Molendinar Burn, running under the Bridge of Sighs, was culverted. This burn in which St Mungo was said to have fished for salmon is now underground on its way to the Clyde.