He therefore carried out ceremonies where their spirits were summoned to caskets to be buried at an imperial tomb.

For example, imperial tombs of the Tang dynasty usually featured que, and remnants can still be seen today.

It is a part of the imperial tomb - the tombs are on the ground floor.

There is an extensive complex of imperial tombs and temples in Huế.

His vast imperial tomb was found by accident, when people were digging a well in 1974.

The imperial tombs, then, had not had anyone inhumed in them for some years.

Today 11 of these Southern Dynasties imperial tombs can still be found to the east and northeast of the city.

The church, whose walls and floor were also covered with jasper slabs, contained several imperial tombs, placed in two side rooms.

The key to knowing the origin of the Japanese imperial line may lie within the ancient imperial tombs known as kofun.

The imperial tomb, built by Haile Selassie to be his final resting place, is empty.