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The marble grave stele of an Athenian horseman. Attica, 370s BCE. (Pushkin Museum, Moscow)

The grave of the German composer Johannes Brahms (1833-97) in the central cemetery of Vienna, Austria.

This is a grave at Noravank Monastery in Armenia; it dates from medieval times and belongs to one of the Orbelian princes. The Orbelian dynasty dominated the political, cultural, and economic landscape of the Armenian provinces of Vayots...

The grave of the English composer Edward Elgar (1857-1934) and his wife Caroline. St. Wulstan's Church, Little Malvern, Worcestershire, England.

The grave of the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) in Venice.

This is a marble grave stela of Lenaios, son of Artemidoros. The deceased image is shown as a banqueter, which belies in his military occupation in life, as indicated in the inscription "As I guarded the tower in battle, oh passer-by, shall...

This vessel has a circular container with a short stem and a hollow foot. It houses a green cosmetic material. It was found with the body of Puabi inside her grave. Puabi was a Semitic Akkadian woman from Ur, c. 2600 BCE, possibly a queen...

The grave of Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) in Grinzing, Austria.

Headstone for the victims of the Boston Massacre in the Granary Burying Ground. Photograph by Rhododendrites, 2019.

In Norse belief, the soul of the deceased might wind up in any one of a number of afterlife realms. There was Valhalla, the realm of Odin where the dead warriors drank, fought, and told stories, Folkvangr ('the Field of the People'), the...