A city where the dead are honored. With tombs and funerary
shrines. Necro meaning death.
Most of the famous necropolises of Egypt line the Nile River
across from their cities. In ancient Greece and Rome, a necropolis would often
line the road leading out of a city; in the 1940s a great Roman necropolis was
discovered under the Vatican's St. Peter's Basilica
Egypt
The Giza Necropolis of ancient Egy pt is one of the oldest
and probably the most well-known necropolis in the world since the Great
Pyramid of Giza was included in the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Aside
from the pyramids, which were reserved for the burial of Pharaohs, the Egyptian
necropoleis included mastabas, a typical royal tomb of the early Dynastic
period.
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The Etruscans took the concept of a "city of the
dead" quite literally. These tombs had multiple chambers and were
elaborately decorated like contemporary houses. The arrangement of the tumuli
in a grid of streets gave it an appearance similar to the cities of the living.
Etruscan necropoleis were usually located on hills or slopes
of hills.[5]
Mycenae
In the Mycenean Greek period predating ancient Greece, burials
could be performed inside the city. In Mycenae, for example, the royal tombs
were located in a precinct within the city walls. This changed during the
ancient Greek period when necropoleis usually lined the roads outside a city.
Kerameikos outside of Athens
Vergina
Amphipolis
Marathon
Persia
Naqsh-e Rustam is an ancient necropolis located about 12 km
(7.5 mi) northwest of Persepolis, in Fars Province, Iran. The oldest relief at
Naqsh-i Rustam dates to c. 1000 BC Darius the Great
The North Acropolis of the ancient Maya city of Tikal in Guatemala
is an architectural complex that served as a royal necropolis and was a centre
for funerary activity for over 1300 years. The acropolis is located near the
centre of the city and is one of the most studied of Maya architectural
complexes.
Iraq
Wadi-us-Salaam, reputedly the largest cemetery in the world.
Lebanon
Tyre Necropolis
Libya
Necropolis of Cyrene
Malta
Hypogeum of Ħal-Saflieni
Morocco
Chellah is a medieval fortified Muslim necropolis located in
the metro area of Rabat, Morocco,
Of Nabta Playa in general pushes the foundation of the Kemetic
Civilization to 10 to 15 thousand years bce.
Size
The whole complex covers some 40,000 square meters and is
surrounded by a hefty mudbrick enclosed wall.
Well Preserved
It is one of the
best-preserved temple complexes in Egypt. The area was used as the sixth nome
of Upper Egypt, south of Abydos.
Hathor temple
Who was highly venerated by the Kemetic people as a supreme
goddess and the Eye of Ra.
Shrine of Auset
Shrine of Sokar
Shrine of Harsomtus
Shrine of Hathor's Sistrum
Shrine of gods of Lower Egypt
Shrine of Hathor
Shrine of the throne of Rê
Shrine of Rê
Shrine of Menat collar
Shrine of Ihy
Shrine to Ausar
Dendera zodiac
The sculptured Dendera zodiac (or Denderah zodiac) is a
widely known Egyptian bas-relief from the ceiling of the pronaos (or portico)
of a chapel dedicated to Ausar in the Hathor temple at Dendera, containing
images of Taurus (the bull) and Libra (the scales).
The first representation of the solar systems and the
concept of the Zodiac
The Calendar Circle, which actuarily tracked the movements
of the stars of a several thousand year period.
Thebes known to the ancient Egyptians as Waset,
was an ancient Egyptian city located along the Nile about 800 kilometers (500
mi) south of the Mediterranean. Its ruins lie within the modern Egyptian city
of Luxor. Thebes was the main city of the fourth Upper Egyptian nome (Sceptre
nome) and was the capital of Egypt for long periods during the Middle Kingdom
and New Kingdom eras.
