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Recreation of the Funeral Chamber of the Celtic Princess of Reinheim
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...
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Ancient Egyptian Funeral Painting
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.
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Cremated Ivory Cupids from a Funeral Couch, 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...
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Funeral Scaffold of a Sioux Chief near Fort Pierre
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.
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State Funeral of Antonín Dvořák
A 1904 photograph of the state funeral procession in Prague of the Czech composer Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904).
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Scythian Funeral Procession
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.
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Top 5 Roman Sites in Southern Spain
Almost 700 years of continuous Roman occupation have left impressive traces in the Spanish landscape. Spain was then known as 'Hispania' and is now a fascinating location for the archaeological traveller. The Spanish provinces were amongst...
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Holy Roman Empire
The Holy Roman Empire officially lasted from 962 to 1806. It was one of Europe’s largest medieval and early modern states, but its power base was unstable and continually shifting. The Holy Roman Empire was not a unitary state, but a confederation...
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Egyptian Funeral Stele
Plastered and painted funerary stele from the 7th-4th century BCE.
Egyptian Museum, Castello Sforzesco, Milan.
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Roman Naval Warfare
Military supremacy of the seas could be a crucial factor in the success of any land campaign, and the Romans well knew that a powerful naval fleet could supply troops and equipment to where they were most needed in as short a time as possible...
