Kidron Valley: Valley Of The King

They found grave robbing, or “resurrecting” a body, disgusting. Resurrecting a Christian body was sacrilege, meaning it violated something sacred. (Lawrence). Family members even watched over graves at night and implemented other means of protecting their loved ones’ bodies. Some would install grave alarms or use iron coffins to discourage resurrectionists (“Body Snatching Around the World”).

He rolled a big stone in front of the entrance to the tomb. Then he went away” (NIV, Matthew 27:60).

The writings on the graves are mostly in Hebrew though some are in English that were written much later by relatives. In this part of the cemetery, the people were buried according to their sex and age. Therefore, men were buried side by side in rows according to their order of death separately from the women who were also buried in separate rows. The children too had a different burial section since they were not mixed with the adults. In this case by looking at the older graves it is hard to determine couples and family members because of this segregation (Hamilton and Baer). Therefore, it is hard to establish the relationship of the people that are buried close to each other without having to search in the record

The Egyptians also worried very much about the after life and made many preparations before the afterlife. There graves were very important to them, and they also did much to keep them from decaying after they passed. That is why they had the idea of mummification to allow them to not decay long after they passed. We also pay a lot of money to allow us to keep from decaying on our burials and the coffins.

The tombs had two main functions. The first function was a place that provided an eternal resting place in which the body could lay protected from thieves and scavengers. The second function of the tomb was a place where cults and ritual acts could be performed to ensure eternal life (Taylor, 2001:136). The body of the person was buried along with their belongings in the tomb to ensure the individual had all the proper materials needed for the afterlife. The Egyptians usually did this because “Tombs were constructed to mirror aspects of the afterlife” (Olson, 2009). These tombs were not only a place where bodies of a deceased lay; it was also a place where rituals would take place. One ritual that was done on the bodies was the ‘Opening of the Mouth’. This was a burial ritual that “accompanied the placement of funerary goods in a tomb- and was a necessary step in the deceased’s rebirth” (Olson, 2009). One very important service that had to be done was the mummification process in which the removal of organs

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is a practice utilized throughout the world to memorialize soldiers who have died in modern wars without being identified. The first monument of this kind was the Tomb of Unknown Soldiers in Frederica, Denmark (1858), which memorialized unknown soldiers who died in the First War of Schleswig. Another such Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is found in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and was erected in 1866 to honor those soldiers who died during the American Civil War.

The Tomb was placed above the grave of the Unknown Soldier of World War I. West of the World War I Unknown are the crypts of unknowns from World War II, Korea and Vietnam. Those three graves are marked with white marble slabs.

Deep shafts lined with stone were the burial grounds of the elite in the Mycenaean Greek society. These shaft graves were also filled with gold and jewelry, and this is because it was believed that the owners would need them in the afterlife.

Even though they believed in an afterlife, the thought of it was not pleasant. The people of Mesopotamia lived very difficult lives and when one was deceased it was more of a reminder of how hard life was. “Likewise, the dead could rise up and torment the living if not given a proper burial, so the bodies of enemies were buried in a manner such as to prevent this from happening.” (4) Unlike where we burry the deceased today, some of the Mesopotamian children were found buried in various places such as under the floors in houses and even in cooking

Tutankhamun’s tomb is the only royal tomb in Egypt to have escaped the discovery of looters and was discovered by archeologist Howard Carter. The death of Tutankhamun was a sudden tragedy that til this day has yet to be solved. The cause of the famous teenage king’s death has been a long drawn out mystery with a range of theories as to how he met his end. There are no historical records explaining the cause or circumstances of his death, nor is there no positive evidence to suggest how he died. However, there are several theories and many of which have changed over the years.

When the children of Israel left the land of Egypt, they inherited the land of Canaan the younger brother of Egypt (1 Chronicles16:16-20). Thousands of years later, Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the land of Canaan (Micah 5:2; Matthew 2:1). When He was about to be assassinated as a child, He was then protected and sheltered in Africa-Egypt, the land of the elder brother of Canaan. Later Jesus was called out from Africa Egypt, to be the savior of the world (Matthew 2:13-15). Not only was Jesus born in the land of Canaan, during His life time, He had only lived in the land of Egypt as a child and spent all His natural life in the land of Canaan the brother of Egypt and Ethiopia throughout His adulthood (Genesis 10:6). The Bible never told us that Jesus have lived, gone or visited anywhere else other than these two Hamitic nations.

Us Etruscans are well known for our grand funerary practices, which involve creating enormous multi-chambered tombs, especially for us wealthy families, with some exceeding 130 feet in diameter and reaching nearly 50 feet in height . Banditaccia necropolis, the Greek word that translates to “the city of the dead”1, started becoming an orderly arrangement of subterranean tombs along a system of streets in the seventh century and now, in the fifth century, or the Archaic Period, our tombs are continuing to expand in great size, taking up more than 100 acres of land!

Because of this, people received payment to bury the dead. The way they buried people was very simple, they threw them all into a pit, and then covered the pit with dirt. A dead man received no more recognition than a dead goat would today.

After these events took place, Jesus leaves to begin his preaching. In doing so, he also chooses his disciples while walking along the Sea of Galilee. Jesus took his disciples with him through Galilee and began his preaching there. He healed the sick and suffering, and also performed

Certainly the idea that it was a tomb for a Pharaoh, though, seems in line with Egyptian practices. For many centuries before and after