Mausoleum Collection (page 38)

Interior of Tomb 104, Classic Period, Monte Alban, Mexico, c550

Men fighting with spears, Paestum, c4th century BC. Paestum was a major ancient Greek city on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea in Magna Graecia (southern Italy)

Men fighting with shields, Paestum, c4th century BC. Paestum was a major ancient Greek city on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea in Magna Graecia (southern Italy)

Horseman, Lucan tomb painting, Paestum, c4th century BC. Paestum was a major ancient Greek city on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea in Magna Graecia (southern Italy)

Return of a warrior, Lucan tomb painting, Paestum, c4th century BC. Paestum was a major ancient Greek city on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea in Magna Graecia (southern Italy)

Faience, Glass and Ivory Playing Pieces from Egyptian Tombs, circa 1500 BC. Held at the Louvre, Paris

Egyptian Faience Shabti-Figures from a Tomb. The ushabti (also called shabti or shawabti) was a funerary figurine used in Ancient Egypt

Harpy Carrying Away The Deceased, Harpy Tomb at Xanthos, 5th century BC. Greek. British Museum

Ploughing from an Egyptian Stele, 18th Dynasty, 1332BC-1323 BC. Horemheb ploughing land in the Fields of Aaru in order to gain eternal life. Relief from the Tomb of Horemheb

Marble carving of formalised lily, Taj Mahal, Agra, India, 17th century. Photograph

Taj Maha, Agra, India, 17th century. Marble mausoleum built by Shah Jahan for his favourite wife, Mumtaz Mahal. Photograph

Pipeclay figure from a Roman tomb at Colchester. It is the figure of a lector reading from a scroll: Romans were customarily entertained at meals by professional readers

Tholos tomb on Crete, 21st century BC
A megalithic tholos tomb near Phaestos on Crete, 21st century BC

Wall painting from a Greek tomb at Paestum of a swimmer, 8th century
Wall painting from a Greek tomb at Paestum of a swimmer, which symbolises the afterlife, 8th century

The Mausoleum of Atchan, with a phoenician inscription. Artist: CM Dixon
The Mausoleum of Atchan, a tomb on the outskirts of the Roman city of Dougga. The tomb bore a Phoenician inscription. From the British Museums collection

Roman tomb slab of a Roman officer and his wife, 1st century
Roman tomb slab of a Roman officer and his wife from Nimes, France, at Maison Carree in Nime, 1st century

Cast of a slab from the Tumulus of Petit-mont, Prehistoric
Cast of a slab from the Tumulus of Petit-mont, Arzon. It is the third support of the left in the chamber of the dolmen. The human feet shown were possibly added later

Dolmen of Mane Lud, Prehistoric
Dolmen of Mane Lud from Locmariaquer in France, Prehistoric

Lenins Tomb in Moscows Red Square
View of Lenins Tomb in Moscows Red Square

Naveta at Els Tudons, an interior view, c. 2000 BC
Naveta at Els Tudons, an interior view from the megalithic burial chamber, c.2000 BC

Menorca Naveta d es Tudons, interior view, c. 2000 BC
Menorca Naveta d es Tudons, interior view of the upper storey, c.2000 BC

Menorca Naveta d es Tudons, c. 2000 BC
Menorca Naveta d es Tudons, a megalithic structure, probably a collective tomb. This view is of the Apsidal end, c.2000 BC

Gold Hittite figure of a king or god, The Gold Tomb, Carcemish, Turkey, c605 BC. The Gold Tomb is a single grave, found inside the city walls

Taj Mahal, Agra, India, 1632-1654. The great marble mausoleum built by Shah Jahan (1592-1666), Mughal emperor, for his wife Arjumand Banu Begam (d1631) called Mumtaz Mahal (Favourite of the Palace)

Pyramid at Giza, Egypt, Old Kingdom, c26th century BC. The three Great Pyramids at Giza were built as tombs for the Pharaohs Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure

Entrance of a tumulus at Mycenae, late Bronze Age, Greece, c1450-c1100 BC. Mycenae was a prehistoric Greek city discovered by the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890) in the 1870s

The Sphinx, Egypt, 1744. The huge head of the Sphinx, seen from the front. It is just in front of the second pyramid of Memphis. Engraving after FL Norden

Scene from Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet. Act V, scene 3: The Death of Romeo. Illustration for William Shakespeares tragedy Romeo and Juliet

Funerary wreath from the Macedonian royal tombs, 350 BC-325 BC. The royal house of Macedon, which lasted from the 9th century BC to the 4th century BC, had royal tombs at Vergina, Macedonia, Greece

Highgate Cemetery, London, 1838. View of the Egyptian Avenue in the North London Cemetery, built in the architectural style fashionable at this time

Sepulchral monument of two brothers, second half of 1st century BC. Found in the collection of The Hermitage, St Petersburg

The Entombment of Christ, c1490-c1500. Found in the collection of The Hermitage, St Petersburg

The Vigil, 1888. Artist: Joseph Swain
The Vigil, 1888. Wilhelm II is shown praying for guidance at the foot of the tomb of his late predecessor, Wilhelm I. Wilhelm II was the grandson of Queen Victoria and is here presented as a fine

Tomb, Peter and Paul Cathedral, St Petersburg, Russia, 2011. Artist: Sheldon Marshall
Tomb, Peter and Paul Cathedral, St Petersburg, Russia, 2011. The cathedral, which was built between 1712 and 1733, stands within the Peter and Paul Fortress. It was designed by Domenico Trezzini

Tomb of Peter the Great, Peter and Paul Cathedral, St Petersburg, Russia, 2011. Artist: Sheldon Marshall
Tomb of Peter the Great, Peter and Paul Cathedral, St Petersburg, Russia, 2011. The cathedral, which was built between 1712 and 1733, stands within the Peter and Paul Fortress

Chapel of St Catherine the Martyr, Peter and Paul Cathedral, St Petersburg, Russia, 2011. Artist: Sheldon Marshall
Chapel of St Catherine the Martyr, Peter and Paul Cathedral, St Petersburg, Russia, 2011. The chapel contains the tombs of Tsar Nicholas II and members of his family and servants

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