Funeral: Did you mean...?

A recreation of the wooden funeral chamber of the 'Princess of Reinheim', dating from the 4th century BCE. The burial chamber was filled with exceptionally rich funerary objects. European Archaeological Park of Bliesbruck-Reinheim, Germany...

Ancient Egyptian tomb painting depicting workmen bringing offerings to a funeral, from the tomb of Nebamun and Ipuky, Thebes, New Kingdom of Egypt (c. 1570 to c. 1069 BCE), 18th Dynasty, c. 1400 BCE. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.

Artist's impression of a Roman funeral. From the video game Total War II.

Artist's impression of how a Scythian funeral process may have looked like. A typical Scythian burial mound (or kurgan) is visible in the background.

The Etruscan Tomb of the Funeral Couch, Tarquinia, 470-450 BCE. (National Etruscan Museum, Villa Giulia, Rome)

After cremation, the incinerated bones were picked out and sorted from the charred wood of the fire and the couch on which the body had been laid. While the bones would be collected and placed into an urn, the remains of the wood and couch...

An Iberian funeral stela from Empuries. The design shows a a coiled iron spear or soliferreum, an action which was customary on burial. 6th century BCE. (Archaeological Museum, Empuries, Spain)

A 1904 photograph of the state funeral procession in Prague of the Czech composer Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904).

Plastered and painted funerary stele from the 7th-4th century BCE. Egyptian Museum, Castello Sforzesco, Milan.

The Dexileos Stele assesses the way that Athenian political thought penetrated all levels of society, showing the conflict that the aristocratic classes were faced with in trying to find their place within the Athenian Democracy. As a visual...