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Ancient Egyptian funerary practices
The ancient world online, 2009Author in this paper describes changes in the ancient Egyptian funerary practices from the Third intermediate period to the Arab conquest of Egypt. Article is well document with the texts of ancient writers and various archaeological sources (artefacts kept in various museums, tombs etc.).
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Zoroastrian afterlife beliefs and funerary practices
2017Malabar Hill, in the cosmopolitan city of Mumbai, is today one of the world's most expensive property markets. And yet the central area of the hillrock peninsula is occupied by the fifty-six-acre walled Zoroastrian funeral grounds, the doongerwadi or 'garden on the hill'.
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McDonaldization, Islamic Teachings, and Funerary Practices in Kuwait
OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying, 2011Drawing on George Ritzer's sociological concept of McDonaldization, this article explores the transformation of burial practices in Kuwait. It is argued that traditional, religious, and private ways of dealing with death have been modernized using the fast-food model of McDonald's.
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The Archaeological Study of Funerary Practices
1996The funerary remains of past cultures have long exerted a strong attraction on students of prehistory. Funerary sites typically are not only a rich source of intact and often exotic artifacts, but they also represent one of the few archaeological contexts in which we have direct access to specific individuals from the past. The individual may be a very
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Sikh afterlife beliefs and funerary practices
2017The origins of what is today called Sikhism can be traced to the Punjab religion of North India five centuries ago. The Guru Granth Sahib's authority and influence on the Sikh way of life is due partly to the fact that its hymns directly testify to the poetic experiences of the Sikh Gurus, and partly because the central message of these hymns is ...
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Funerary Rites and Practices, Greco-Roman
2015A description of the typical Egyptian treatment of the body from death to interment during Ptolemaic and Roman times will not differ in its main elements from a similar account of earlier periods: The dead were mourned at home and then transported to the embalming place, normally situated on the west bank of the Nile River, where the mummification of ...
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