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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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Ritual and Funerary Rites in Later Prehistoric Scotland
2019A report of research undertaken as part of a research grant from the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Bronze Age ‘Barrows’ and Funerary Rites and Rituals of Cremation
Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 1997This paper discusses the evidence for pyre sites, debris, and technology associated with the disposal of cremated human remains in Bronze Age ‘barrows’. The use of the terms such as ‘cremation’, ‘cremation burial’, and ‘cremation-related feature’ are examined.
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Dying Impoverished: The Funerary Rites, Gravestones, and Cemeteries of the Poor
Markers: Annual Journal of the Association for Gravestone StudiesAbstract: Because most deaths in America are commemorated with physical memorials, gravestone and graveyard studies reveal information about a wide swath of social and economic classes, from the wealthiest to the poorest. This article reviews mortuary remains for the latter: paupers.
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The Funerary rites at Mleiha (Sharja-U.A.E.); The Camelid Graves
1997During the 1994 campaign of excavation in the interior of the site Mleiha (Sharja, U.A.E.), a necropole contemporaneous of the Greco-Roman period has been exposed, turning our attention to the privileged statute of some animals. Several human graves were indeed associated with camelids graves. In one case, one of the graves housed both a Camelid and an
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An Unusual Depiction of Ramesside Funerary Rites
The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 1946openaire +1 more source