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21 Tombs Around the World
  • Introduction
  • Tomb of Kazanlak (Kazanlak, Bulgaria)
  • Mausoleum of the first Qin emperor (Xi’an, China)
  • Ming tombs (Beijing, China)
  • Mausoleum of Sun Yat-sen (Nanjing, China)
  • Kom el-Shoqafa catacombs (Alexandria, Egypt)
  • Tutankhamen’s tomb (near Luxor, Egypt)
  • Napoleon’s tomb (Paris, France)
  • Macedonian royal tombs (Verghina, Greece)
  • Early Christian necropolis (Pécs, Hungary)
  • Quṭb Shāhī tombs (near Golconda, India)
  • Naqsh-e Rostam (near Shīrāz, Iran)
  • Grave of W.B. Yeats (Drumcliff, Ireland)
  • Newgrange (Drogheda, Ireland)
  • Christian catacombs (Rome, Italy)
  • Medici tombs (Florence, Italy)
  • Tomb of St. Anthony (Padua, Italy)
  • Tomb of Muḥammad I Askia (Gao, Mali)
  • Tomb of Jahāngīr (near Lahore, Pakistan)
  • Grave of Robert Louis Stevenson (Mount Vaea, Samoa)
  • Buganda royal tombs (Kasubi, Uganda)
  • Imperial tombs at the Complex of Hué Monuments (near Hué, Vietnam)
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Qin tomb: terra-cotta soldiers

21 Tombs Around the World: References & Edit History

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