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  2. Ushabti - Wikipedia

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    The ushabti (also called shabti or shawabti, with a number of variant spellings) was a funerary figurine used in ancient Egyptian funerary practices. The Egyptological term is derived from 𓅱𓈙𓃀𓏏𓏭𓀾 wšbtj, which replaced earlier 𓆷𓍯𓃀𓏏𓏭𓀾 šwbtj, perhaps the nisba of 𓈙𓍯𓃀𓆭 šwꜣb " Persea tree ...

  3. Cist - Wikipedia

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    Look up cist in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In archeology, a cist ( / ˈkɪst /; also kist / ˈkɪst /; [1] [2] from Greek: κίστη, Middle Welsh Kist or Germanic Kiste) or cist grave is a small stone-built coffin-like box or ossuary used to hold the bodies of the dead. In some ways, it is similar to the deeper shaft tomb.

  4. Hanging coffins - Wikipedia

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    Hanging coffins in China are known in Mandarin as xuanguan ( simplified Chinese: 悬 棺; traditional Chinese: 懸 棺; pinyin: xuán guān) which also means "hanging coffin". They are an ancient funeral custom of some ethnic minorities. The most famous hanging coffins are those which were made by the Bo people (now extinct) of Sichuan and Yunnan.

  5. HTML - Wikipedia

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    The text between < html > and </ html > describes the web page, and the text between < body > and </ body > is the visible page content. The markup text < title > This is a title </ title > defines the browser page title shown on browser tabs and window titles and the tag < div > defines a division of the page used for easy styling.

  6. Viewing (funeral) - Wikipedia

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    Viewing (funeral) In death customs, a viewing (sometimes referred to as reviewal, calling hours, funeral visitation in the United States and Canada) is the time that family and friends come to see the deceased before the funeral, once the body has been prepared by a funeral home. [1] It is generally recommended (although not necessary) that a ...

  7. Burial vault (tomb) - Wikipedia

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    A burial vault is a structural stone or brick-lined underground tomb or 'burial chamber' for the interment of a single body or multiple bodies underground. The main difference between entombment in a subterranean vault and a traditional in-ground burial is that the coffin is not placed directly in the earth, but is placed in a burial chamber ...

  8. Gora Qabaristan, Karachi - Wikipedia

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    Gora Qabaristan, Karachi. Coordinates: 24.8556°N 67.0499°E. Gora Qabaristan. The cross at the entrance gate. The Gora Qabaristan ( Urdu: گورا قبرِستان; also spelled as Gora Kabristan ), or Gora Cemetery, literally transliterated as White (man's) graveyard [1] is Karachi, Pakistan's only operational Christian cemetery .

  9. Ancient Egyptian funerary texts - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The literature that makes up the ancient Egyptian funerary texts is a collection of religious documents that were used in ancient Egypt, usually to help the spirit of the concerned person to be preserved in the afterlife . They evolved over time, beginning with the Pyramid Texts in the Old Kingdom through the Coffin Texts of the Middle ...