The graveyard of Liternum, near Naples, was in use between the first century B.C.E. and the third century C.E.

“Ravenna attracted the best artists and architects from around the empire,” noted Claudia Frassineti ... many of its majestic Roman-era structures have simply vanished and been replaced ...

The deceased were interred there in several ways, including funerary urns set within about 20 plastered niches cut into the walls ...

then of the Roman Empire, and it became the capital of the Christian world in the 4th century. The World Heritage site, extended in 1990 to the walls of Urban VIII, includes some of the major ...

Ravenna was the seat of the Roman Empire in the 5th century and then of Byzantine Italy until the 8th century. It has a unique collection of early Christian mosaics and monuments. All eight buildings ...

For instance, the mausoleum of Emperor Qin Shi Huang is over 12 Ii in circumference, and the Zhaoling mausoleum of Emperor Tai Zong of Tang, including the area of the attendant tombs, covers 300 ...

The earlier form of piling enormous amounts of clay into a tomb, such as the mausoleum of Emperor Qin Shi Huang, required much labor. The project was so ambitious that an ordinary emperor or king ...

One of the graves found in Liternum Credit: Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio per l'area metropolitana di Napoli Archaeological excavations in the ancient Roman colony of ...