The Crossword Solver found 20 answers to “His burial place is said to be in Israel’s Cave of Machpelah”, 5 letters crossword clue. The Crossword Solver finds answers to American-style crosswords, British-style crosswords, general knowledge crosswords and cryptic crossword puzzles.
Answer : TOMB
Tomb, in the strictest sense, a home or house for the dead; the term is applied loosely to all kinds of graves, funerary monuments, and memorials. In many primitive cultures the dead were buried in their own houses, and the tomb form may have developed out of this practice, as a reproduction in permanent materials of primeval house types. Thus prehistoric tomb barrows were usually built around a round hut, in which the body was placed, along with tools and other personal effects for use in the next life. With the more advanced technology of early civilizations, brick and stone tombs appeared, often of great size, but still preserving primitive house forms. They were sometimes domical and sometimes rectangular, depending on which form was in common domestic use when the tombs began to be built. Being thought of as houses, such tombs were often lavishly provided with clothes, utensils, and furniture, so that they are major sources of knowledge about the cultures that built them.
The deceased were represented not as corpses but as souls living in heaven, with their hands pressed together in adoration and the symbols of their salvation beside them. During the 15th century it became a common Christian practice to represent such figures as dead (usually on biers). This foreshadowed a general revival of the Greek practice of erecting funerary monuments, rather than tombs, during the 16th century. Since the Renaissance, the idea in the West of the tomb as a home has died out, except as a faint reminiscence in the mausoleums sometimes erected above graves or serving as burial vaults in modern cemeteries. See also barrow; dolmen; effigy mound; gisant; sarcophagus.
More Clues
- ISAAC His burial place is said to be in Israel’s Cave of Machpelah
- WAIKIKI What for important boat loading place is said to be a beach resort
- TOMB The phantom begins to look for his burial place
- KARMIEL City in Israel’s North (var)
- MT IDA Site of the Cave of Zeus, in myth: Abbr.
- GENIE “Aladdin” character released in the Cave of Wonders
- LORAL Origin of language said to be in part of the head
- NIECE Relative said to be in the south of France
- HOARD A lot of people are said to be in the store
- EDDIE Mr McGuire said to be in a bit of a whirl
- NOMES Small statues said to be in old parts of Egypt?
- ESSEN Where Poles are said to be in Germany
- ELBOW Elle with a ribbon tie said to be in joint
- PHLOX Flocks said to be in the flower garden
- SNOOP Enquire about a non-starter said to be in the soup
- CACHE Ready money said to be in reserve
- CORAL Carbon said to be in hard material
- ABRAHAM Prophet believed to be buried in the Cave of the Patriarchs
- ALTAMIRA Cave of _, UNESCO World Heritage Site in Cantabria, Spain, famous for its Palaeolithic paintings
- CHARYBDIS Dangerous whirlpool opposite the cave of Scylla in Greek mythology
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