Aux Origines des rites funéraires. antiquité they were exhumed by the

they were exhumed by the thousands from Egyptian soil

wife of Amenhotep II

each page here forming a common work through the direct resonance of calligraphed words and a drawing

The only people who see the whole picture are those who step outside the frame

Aux Origines des rites funéraires. antiquité they were exhumed by theIn this book, Eric Crubzy takes us on a journey of discovery through funeral rites from around the world and shows us, through unpublished documents, that it is possible, despite their apparent diversity, to connect practices as different as Christian burial and the turning of the dead in Madagascar. From Siberia to Cameroon, via Pharaonic Egypt and southern Europe, three stages appear to structure all funeral rites, even since prehistory. What do