Sarcophagus
A sarcophagus is a stone container for a coffin or body. The word comes from Greek "sarx" meaning flesh, and "Phagos" meaning to eat, so sarkophagos (σαρκοφαγος), which means "eater of flesh". Herodotus believed, erroneously, that sarcophagi (the Latin plural) were carved from a special kind of rock that consumed the flesh of the corpse inside.
See also
- List of Egypt-related topics, Burials in the Valley of the Kings
- Coffin
- Ossuary
- Tomb
- Burial
- Funeral
- Canopic jar
- Mummy
- Great Pyramid of Giza
- Cologne cathedral
- Catacombs of Rome
- Wentworth Woodhouse
- Clazomenae
- Aachen Cathedral
- Alyattes II
- Nuit
- Minos
- The Fifth Element
- Stargate
- Alabaster
- Jewish symbolism
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