Secondary Burial and the Afterlife in the Middle East, Europe and Anatolia

by Robin Melrose

Cremation and inhumation are the two most common forms of burial. But in the ancient world there was a another: secondary burial, involving the de-fleshing of the body, followed by another funeral. Common in prehistory from the Middle East and Mycenaean Greece to Britain, the practice ceased between the first and fourth centuries with the advent of Christianity--except in the cases of saints, whose relics were first reburied in the Eastern Roman Empire...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476679924
• ISBN13: 9781476679921
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 244 Pages
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher