• The Book of Burial (Chinese: t 葬書, s 葬书, p Zàngshū) was a 4th or 5th-century AD work by the Taoist mystic Guo Pu. The work was a commentary on the now-lost...
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    translations of Archetypal burial classic of Qing Wu; The inner chapter of the Book of burial rooted in antiquity ; The yellow emperor's classic of house siting;...
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    Burial at sea is the disposal of human remains in the ocean, normally from a ship, boat or aircraft. It is regularly performed by navies, and is done by...
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    Sky burial (Tibetan: བྱ་གཏོར་, Wylie: bya gtor, lit. "bird-scattered") is a funeral practice in which a human corpse is placed on a mountaintop to decompose...
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    Premature burial, also known as live burial, burial alive, or vivisepulture, means to be buried while still alive. Animals or humans may be buried alive...
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  • writers of the season attended the 2018 WonderCon and screened the episode "Sins of the Father: The Book of Redemption" at their panel ahead of its official...
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    Tumulus (redirect from Burial mound)
    tumulus (pl.: tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves. Tumuli are also known as barrows, burial mounds or (in Siberia and Central...
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    Jar burial is a human burial custom where the corpse is placed into a large earthenware container and then interred. Jar burials are a repeated pattern...
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  • Burial Rites (2013) is a novel by Australian author Hannah Kent, based on a true story. Kent was inspired to write Burial Rites during her time as an...
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    Urn Burial, or, a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk is a work by Sir Thomas Browne, published in 1658 as the first part of a two-part...
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  • Sky Burial is a 2004 book by Xue Xinran, her second. Xue is a British-Chinese journalist who writes for The Guardian. Sky Burial was listed in the Los...
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    custom. In all cases, however, sharia (Islamic religious law) calls for burial of the body as soon as possible, preceded by a simple ritual involving bathing...
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  • BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea is a two-part single-player expansion to the first-person shooter video game BioShock Infinite. It was developed by Irrational...
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  • Burial of Fatima is about the secret burial and the uncertainty in the resting place of Fatima, daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and wife of...
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    Natural burial is the interment of the body of a dead person in the soil in a manner that does not inhibit decomposition but allows the body to be naturally...
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    Shroud (redirect from Burial shroud)
    reference to burial sheets, mound shroud, grave clothes, winding-cloths or winding-sheets, such as the famous Shroud of Turin, tachrichim (burial shrouds)...
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  • The following is a list of burial places attributed to Abrahamic figures according to various religious and local traditions. The locations listed are...
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    Space burial is the launching of human remains into space. Missions may go into orbit around the Earth or to extraterrestrial bodies such as the Moon,...
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    A Christian burial is the burial of a deceased person with specifically Christian rites; typically, in consecrated ground. Until recent times Christians...
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    body, casting magic spells, and burials with specific grave goods thought to be needed in the afterlife. The ancient burial process evolved over time as...
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  • Bram Stoker's Burial of the Rats is a 1995 American film. It was part of a series Roger Corman Presents. A comic book version of the story was released...
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    The tomb of Tutankhamun, also known by its tomb number, KV62, is the burial place of Tutankhamun (reigned c. 1332–1323 BC), a pharaoh of the Eighteenth...
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    Sutton Hoo (redirect from Sutton Hoo burial)
    burial containing a wealth of Anglo-Saxon artifacts was discovered. The site is important in establishing the history of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of East...
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    educated son of a governor. He was a natural historian and a prolific writer of the Jin dynasty. He is the author of The Book of Burial, the first-ever...
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    epoch.[citation needed] Burial mounds are complex structures with internal chambers. Within the burial chamber at the heart of the kurgan, elite individuals...
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    Filipinos to create burial customs to honor the dead through prayers and rituals. Due to different cultures from various regions of the Philippines, many...
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    Cemetery (redirect from Burial place)
    A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park, is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise...
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  • 2013-12-21. "Fiction Book Review:A Burial at Sea by Charles Finch". Publishers Week. September 12, 2011. Retrieved 2013-12-21. A Burial at Sea Official Macmillan...
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    wax and laid in a trench. Writing on the culture of the Persians, Herodotus reports on the Persian burial customs performed by the magi, again, kept secret...
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    According to the Book of Later Han, the type of wire used was dependent on the status of the person buried. The jade burial suits of emperors used gold...
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