Roman funeral: Did you mean...?

The funeral mask of the Egyptian queen Tiye, 1398-1338 BCE. Tiye was the wife of the pharaoh Amenhotep III, mother of Akhenaten, and grandmother of both Tutankhamun and Ankhsenamun.(Altes Museum, Berlin)

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...

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...

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

"HEGESO, DAUGHTER OF PROXENOS" ΗΓΗΣΩΠΡΟΧΕΝΟ So reads the inscription at the top of the stele. At left a slave girl stands, holding out a jewellery box for Hegeso who has taken an item out of the box. The detail of the...

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...

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.

Funeral Scaffold of a Sioux Chief near Fort Pierre, aquatint on paper by Karl Bodmer, plate 11 from Volume 2 of Maximilian, Prince of Wied's Travels in the Interior of North America, 1844.

Marble funeral stele depicting a hoplite soldier, signed by Aristokles (500 BCE), National Archaeological Museum, Athens.

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