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The royal necropolis of Ayaa was a group of two hypogea housing a total of 21 sarcophagi of kings and nobles of the Phoenician city of Sidon in Lebanon. The sarcophagi were highly diverse in style, ranging across Egyptian, Greek, Lycian and Phoenician styles. 6th-4th century BCE
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Burial S166 from the cemetery of Adaïma in Egypt, 3300–2700 BCE: a teenage girl was buried with her right arm severed. Her body faced the winter solstice sunset, while the sarcophagus was oriented toward the heliacal rising of Sirius, the star that heralded the flooding of the Nile
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