11.   The royal tombs are magnificent examples of medieval and Renaissance statuary.

12.   Antiquities department director Demos Christou said the statues were probably placed outside the royal tomb to guard it, or at the entrance to the city.

13.   But equally majestic are the royal tombs of the Nguyen Dynasty, built along the river.

14.   Shortly afterward, the body was interred in a simple ceremony in the basement crypt of the bullet-pocket royal tomb on a hill overlooking the capital.

15.   Shortly afterward, the body was interred in a simple ceremony at the bullet-pocket royal tomb on a hill overlooking the capital.

16.   Sparkling in the exhibit are hundreds of objects, from a delicately braided gold necklace found in a royal tomb to remarkably intact cuneiform clay tablets.

17.   Two bodies found in royal tombs in southern Egypt were women identified both as daughters and wives of Ramses.

18.   Unlike many royal tombs, neither had been plundered and both contained a wealth of jewels, gold, vessels, statuary and musical instruments.

19.   He said archaeologists who studied a tomb at the Oracle of Amon had found that it dated from the Macedonian era and was laid out like royal Greek tombs.

20.   The site includes two large pyramids as well as richly-decorated royal tombs.