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  2. Roman funerary art - Wikipedia

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    Roman funerary art. Marble cinerary chest (90–110 AD), made by Marcus Domitius Primigenius "for himself, his freedmen and freedwomen, and their descendants": the deceased makes an offering to a reclining female figure who may be Mother Earth, with two attendants holding food and wine ( Metropolitan Museum of Art) [1] The funerary art of ...

  3. Burial vault (enclosure) - Wikipedia

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    Burial vault (enclosure) A burial vault (also known as a burial liner, grave vault, and grave liner) is a container, formerly made of wood or brick but more often today made of metal or concrete, that encloses a coffin to help prevent a grave from sinking. Wooden coffins (or caskets) decompose, and often the weight of earth on top of the coffin ...

  4. Archaeology of Ancient Egypt - Wikipedia

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    The archaeology of Ancient Egypt is the study of the archaeology of Egypt, stretching from prehistory through three millennia of documented history. Egyptian archaeology is one of the branches of Egyptology . Napoleon 's invasion of Egypt in 1798 led to the Western passion for Egyptian antiquities. In the modern era, the Ministry of State for ...

  5. Immurement - Wikipedia

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    Immurement. Immurement (from the Latin im-, "in" and murus, "wall"; literally "walling in"), also called immuration or live entombment, is a form of imprisonment, usually until death, in which someone is placed within an enclosed space without exits. [1] This includes instances where people have been enclosed in extremely tight confinement ...

  6. YouTube - Wikipedia

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    YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.Accessible worldwide, YouTube was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of PayPal.

  7. 'Steve Harvey' features women in their 70s who look decades ...

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    The ladies are all pushing 80 -- Mimi is 75, Annette is 72 and Linda is 71 -- but they look decades younger. Not a single one of those women looked over 40, let alone in their 70s. Mimi and ...

  8. Hanging coffins - Wikipedia

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    The height at which their coffins are placed reflects their social status. Most people interred in hanging coffins are the most prominent members of the amam-a, the council of male elders in the traditional dap-ay (the communal men's dormitory and civic center of the village). There is also one documented case of a woman being accorded the ...

  9. This high school graduation video is making everyone cry

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    The video seamlessly cuts to kids jumping into the frame on the other side, now high school seniors clad in caps and gowns. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Mr. Tausch ...