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The funerary literature from ancient Egypt has long been studied. However, the final manuscripts in this tradition have received negligible attention. In the first two centuries of the Common Era, a new funerary composition appeared, with papyrus as its most common medium for tr…

For millennia, ancient civilizations of the Near East pondered the important psychological questions posed by death. The funerary portraits produced by the desert kingdom of Palmyra from the first century B.C. to the destruction of the city by the Romans in A.D. 273 present some…

By the late sixth century B.C., the monumental tombs of Asia Minor regularly contained couches, or klinai, for the placement of the dead. These furnishings served both as eternal beds for the deceased and as symbolic banquet couches, often accompanied by tables and vessels for e…