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people of great affluence and wealth used the tombstones to protect there deceased loved one graves from being robbed by grave robbers looking for bodies to experiment with. Sometime later on a story arose about it being a part of the Jewish religion but I feel that this story is a fable and the truth is people erected grave stones and put them in the middle of the grave so as to discourage grave robbers.

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