The Uzbeks consider the mausoleum a holy place and pray here before heading off on Hadj.
Thanks to Netzer's research we now know that the mausoleum was an 82-foot tower.
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Sophia Mitchell, operations manager of Our Mother of Sorrows Catholic Cemetery and Mausoleum in Reno, Nev.
It combines a mausoleum for his family, with a palace, monastery, cathedral and school.
And there it is -- a crater in the ground barely 100 meters from the mausoleum gate.
The blue of the ceiling of the mausoleum of Galla Placidia is unusually dark and deep almost inscrutably so.
The team working on the restoration dug an exploratory hole in the internal floor of the mausoleum building.
Shea Stadium morphed from a mausoleum into the city's rowdy, celebrity-spying hot spot.
The mausoleum was created in 1713, upon the death of Sir James, who had built the castle in 1698.
Erdos (sometimes called Ordos) is also home to the mausoleum of Genghis Khan where his remains are purportedly entombed.
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He had a mausoleum built of white marble and decorated with gold leaf.
Silvio Berlusconi's underground mausoleum has 100 tonnes of marble abstract sculpture on top.
XV, it was turned by the leaders of the revolution into a mausoleum for the great men of France.
Owing to the small size of the mausoleum chapel, the mosaics do not create the impression of vain, cold pomp.
Archaeologists who examined a mausoleum built in 1713, upon his death, said a body had been found in a vault.
The mausoleum of Galla Placidia, sister of Flavius Honorius, the very man who made Ravenna the capital of the Western Empire.
It is said that his fear of being entombed alive was so great that his mausoleum was rigged with a buzzer.
The amphitheater was preserved because Herod buried it under tons of earth so the mausoleum would sprout from a smooth slope.
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He listens his fill, nods, and smiles, then the woman deftly wheels his chair through the crowd and out of the mausoleum.
This morning Farooq is to attend a memorial service at his father's mausoleum, near the mosque on the banks of Nagin lake.
Early accounts held at Pentillie state that Sir James' statue was placed on the first floor of the mausoleum, looking out of the windows.
In 2007, following 40 years of digging, archaeologist Ehud Netzer unearthed the foundations of an elaborate mausoleum, and then the fragments of three sarcophagi.
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It was in this conflicted setting that Herod turned to his last project, a mausoleum that would be visible from afar and last for ages.
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Mr Jessop said the vault was found after archaeologists dug an exploratory hole in the internal floor of the mausoleum and discovered a brick-built roof.
The mausoleum has seen little maintenance over the last 300 years.
Next year archaeologists hope to open to the public Augustus's mausoleum - once a monument in white travertine marble that is now an overgrown ruin.
But, by the evening, downtown is little more than a mausoleum.
They are grouped around the city's most famous monument, the blue domed mausoleum of Ahmad Shah Durrani - the 17th century ruler who founded modern Afghanistan.
The films, which are voted on and chosen by Cinespia fans, are digitally projected onto the wall of a mausoleum and DJs play music before and after the movie.
Losh left little of herself beyond the stone, wood and glass of her astonishing church and a few other local structures a mausoleum, a cross, the schoolhouse, some cottages.
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