Sarcophagi
The use of cans for the protection of the dead is not a general phenomenon when ancient peoples. In primitive civilizations. He only put the bodies on the surface of the ground almost, and sometimes the body was covered by animal skin or damage the mat. Art and the way in the hole with stones wrapped its aspects is a kind of sarcophagi and speak for their use. When the peoples of the civilizations that used the Catacombs in this case and in most cases, a room deep in the well-free construction or composed of sheets or logs, wooden houses, as sometimes assumed in the cemetery of the Sumerians. And sometimes we find large baskets or jars instead of sarcophagi as especially in the Bronze Age.
In Egypt since the end of the era before the strains appeared sarcophagi, made of baked clay or wood, which replaced the baskets that followed the use of mats or animal skins in the early fourth millennium BC. During the historical period under poor use of these sarcophagi cheap cost, and sometimes substituted by a tractor has been preserved mummified bodies in total. Found Altenip phase (3200-2800 BC). On some wooden sarcophagi and sarcophagi, but most of the mud-baked. In the cemetery of the old empire appeared sarcophagi of stone (granite or limestone) is a large rectangular pools bare of decoration and Mscolp and closed by the cover of the sarcophagus I Maikarinos a decoration, it seems to add to it later. In the era of Empire Central, and as a result of the emergence of democracy in the type of burial customs, the more ornate sarcophagi wooden poles are multiple colors and facades of houses and palaces, surrounded by hieroglyphic texts Mdvinyp. In the modern era of the imperial tomb appeared representative of a person deceased rich decoration, this tomb is sometimes a component of several Noawess Taalab inside each other and fit with the shape of the structure of the Dead mummy or mummy.
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