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Q: Why is a sarcophagus covered in hieroglyphs?
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What are sarcophagus made out of?

Sarcophagus looks like a coffin, but sarcophagus have faces and are painted with bright beautiful colors. Some of them are covered in gold if they were kings.


What is the name of Egyptian caskets?

Sarcophagus, or sarcophagi in the plural, is the term generally used to describe the final resting place of ancient Egyptian burial ceremonies. They were designed to remain above ground, thus their extremely decorative carvings. At times, some sarcophagi may actually contain several layers of coffins between the outer shell of the sarcophagus and the corpse of the person buried therein. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcophagus


What is the antonym for sarcophagus?

The antonym for sarcophagus is likely "living" or "alive," as a sarcophagus is typically associated with death and burial.


What is a stone coffin called?

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Stone coffin in which wood coffin was placed?

A sarcophagus!!!! The stone coffin in which a wood coffin was placed is a sarcophagus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


How do you spell hyrogliffs?

The correct spelling is "hieroglyphs".


What is a synonym for the word sarcophagus?

A synonym for the word "sarcophagus" is "coffin."


How were hieroglyphics done?

Hieroglyphs were written on tomb walls, on inside and outside of a sarcophagus, on temple walls and much more. they started with a grid line and drew the pictures on the grid the erased the grid lines later.The scribes were the only ones who knew how to read and write in hieroglyphics.


What is the plural of hieroglyphs?

Hieroglyphs is already plural. The singular is hieroglyph.


What was the name of picture writing used by Egyptians?

Hieroglyphs.


Why did they put mummy in the sarcophagus?

Initially sarcophagus were made of limestone. And they thought it helped in decomposing the flesh. Before great pyramids were made sarcophagus was used.


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