- To honor and commemorate the deceased
- To provide a resting place for the body
- To protect the body from scavengers and the elements
- To make a statement about the deceased's life and achievements
- To serve as a место хранения for grave goods that will be useful to the deceased in the afterlife
- To create a place for families to come and remember their loved ones
- To mark a boundary between the living and the dead
Researchers and experts have long agreed that the origin of the Great Flood myth found in many cultures of the Mediterranean and the Near and Middle East lies in the Mesopotamian story told in the Gilgamesh poem, which includes a version of the story that is actually older. It is tablet number XI t
A new study, led by researchers from Bar-Ilan University, Ono Academic College, the University of Tulsa and the Israel Antiquities Authority, features a 1.5-million-year-old human vertebra discovered in the Valley. of the Jordan. According to research published in the journal Scientific Reports , th
Located in the agglomeration of Angers, within the domain of Pignerolle, the Château-Museum of communication of Angers offers since 1992, an educational and interactive vision of the history of the means of communication . The innovations on display constitute a total of 1300 devices , including amo
New evidence from a lake bottom in the remote Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic indicates that an unknown group of humans settled there around AD 500, some 350 years before the Vikings, who until recently were considered the first human inhabitants. The settlers may have been Celts who crossed rou