A burial chamber is a part of a grave mound where the deceased is laid to rest, often made of wood and preserved due to waterlogged conditions, providing valuable insights into ancient burial practices and chro
Did you know that the religion of ancient Assyria was quite similar to the famous beliefs and practices of ancient Egypt? Both civilizations believed in a multitude of gods, had a conception of an afterlife, and had leaders who ruled on behalf of the gods. The Assyrian king was the ruler ...
Death and burial was a close companion for people in the ancient world, because of their short life expectancy. They developed ceremonies and rituals centred around the dying, the dead and their survivors. The practices adopted by ancient peoples allowed individuals to cope with the mysteries of ...
Belief in some form of afterlife was widespread in the ancient world. The Egyptians' encounters with sand-dried corpses might have influenced their particular beliefs and practices regarding the afterlife. Although mummification is the most striking feature of the Egyptian way of death, it draws its...
The penalties and the denial of burial rights suggest a reemergence of some of the early pagan horror of such deaths and were the basis for many of the practices that appeared later in many countries, such as desecrating the corpse of a person who committed suicide, mutilating the body, and...
The two principal building materials used in ancient Egypt were unbaked mud brick and stone. From the Old Kingdom (c. 2575–2130bce) onward, stone was generally used for tombs—the eternal dwellings of the dead—and for temples—the eternal houses of the gods. Mud brick remained the domest...