sarcophagus
The ancient Egyptians were the first to use coffins in burying their dead. Their coffins were called sarcophagi and were made of stone.
they were put in coffins
sphinx
they put magic spells inside
you take off the heavy covering
the Rosetta stone was all about Egypt. Scirbes used papyrus to write everything about the Pharaohs and Egypt. when they ran out of papyrus they used a stone now called The Rosetta Stone. If you ever want to see The Rosetta Stone it is located in London.
mummy marble (coffins and burial masks decorated with this)
They put the mummified dead into a coffin made of wood (sometimes into several coffins), which were richly decorated, and the coffin (or coffins) was put into a sarcophagus which was made of stone.
A mummy's 'coffin' is called a sarcophagus.
pyramids are towers from Egypt and they are made from rocks called lime stone they are founded on a top of a mountain
Sarcophagus, it literally means flesh eater, applied to stone coffins or coffin receptacles in more modern mausoleums.
Kissing Coffins