Coffins

The first coffin is tin, the second mahogany, the third and fourth lead, the fifth ebony, and the sixth porphyry. Porphyry simply means stone.

After his body was embalmed the number off coffins fulfilled a number of purposes: Led-lined coffins can prevent complete decomposition of the body, other layers are for security of the body and the final elaborate coffin acts as symbolism that this person was of great importance.

It is said that in the olden days if the dead was innocent the coffin door would open but if they were guilty and were going to go to hell they would try and open the wrong side and then they would lose their souls for all eternity. And we have continued this tradition not even realizing it.

Catholics bury their dead for the same reason other people bury their dead. After a few days they begin to decay and raise quite a stink, not to mention the possibility of being a source of disease.

The ancient Egyptians were the first to use coffins in burying their dead. Their coffins were called sarcophagi and were made of stone.

Only those caskets are air (and water) tight which are "sealer" caskets, meaning that they are provided with a rubber like sealing gasket between the lid and the base of the caskets. Usually only metal caskets can be sealer caskets.

King Tutankhaten had 4 coffins. They were all made of wood, which was then heavily decorated on the outside with both paint and gold leaf. One of Tut's coffins was made partly of gold. That was the coffin that they put Tut in when he died. The head of that coffin was made of pure gold decorated with stones and colored glass.

The Egyptians mummified the dead because they believed the persons soul would leave the body at death and return. The soul needed to be able to recognize the body to live forever and therefore they used the mummification process.

In Egyptian religion, people did not believe there was one all-powerful deity. There were some gods who were considered more powerful than others, but nearly every family had a particular god, and some carried a small statue (shawabti) of that god with them for protection. When a person died, their family felt it was important to make sure the tomb was welcoming to the family's god. Egyptians thus put not just the mummified body of the deceased in the coffin or crypt. They put small items of furniture or jewelry or other things that would help the deity to recognize the deceased as a loyal believer, and thus welcome him or her to the afterlife.

In the tombs of kings they were put there so that the deceased would be able to eat in the afterlife (as they believed they lived on after death). If it was a temple of a god offerings would be made in reverence to please the gods as the ancient Egytians thought that by angering them their crops would fail; Egypt is a volatile place to live after all.

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3. The two innermost sarcophagi can be found at Cairo museum today but the outermost still holds Tutankhamen's mummy, still in Egypt

A hermetic seal is one which is basically airtight. So a hermetically-sealed zinc-lined coffin is an airtight coffin with a zinc coating on the inside.

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Each of their paintings had great meaning to them. They believe that the hieroglyphs they make protect the dead from any harm in their afterlife. Example : A painting of a snake being killed means it will keep off evils from the dead in his afterlife.

Egyptian coffins were where you had your loved ones buried in.(If you could afford it). And all Egyptians of the royal family bloodline were buried in them. And tey are called sarcofegifs.

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

Some places where coffins are stored: graveyard or grave, mausoleum, earth, crypt, hearse, cemetery, or a funeral home.

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In the United States, standard caskets for adults have a length between 80 and 83 inches. Industrially manufactured oversize caskets are up to 96" long. Hand crafted caskets can be even longer.

Putting dead people in.

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They put the mummies of the people that could afford them into coffins. The coffins or sarcofigi (singular sarcofigus) where usually like Russian dolls - fitting one inside another, plated or made of gold. Painted with magic spells to keep the person safe as they journeyed to the afterlife and from Howard Carter!

King Tutankhamun was not a very popular king. There is no personal significance that signifies his popularity in the fact that he was buried in three coffins-this is simply how pharaohs were buried according to the Egyptian religion. King Tutankhamun's tomb was the only tomb of a pharaoh found to date that had been untouched since the time of its original closing, and therefore it contained many more riches. However, the haphazard placing of precious objects in the tomb shows a general lack of respect for the king himself. In short, it was mainly a religious significance rather than a sign of personal respect and liking for the king himself.

a sarcophagus it what egyptians called a coffin

Not to show the feet of a deceased person in a casket is a phenomenon which is limited to certain cultures, as for example to North America. But even in the US there are certain regions where the feet of casketed persons are usually shown. Especially in the Great Lakes region "full couch" caskets are preferred, which means that the complete lid of the casket is opened for viewing, not just the head panel as in most other parts of the US, where "half couch" caskets typically are used. Except in rare cases where the "full couch" casket has an inner foot panel or in which a casket blanket is used, the feet of the deceased person can be seen in opened up "full couch" caskets. The same is the case when a "priest style" casket is used (where the lid is completely removed from the casket during the viewing).

One of the reasons why the feet of a deceased are not shown might be the fact, that due to "rigor mortis" the feet can have a somewhat strange look, even with regular shoes on. Oftentimes it is quite difficult for the funeral director to put shoes on the deceased person's feet: as a consequence of the chemical processes taking place after death rigor sets in and stays for a while; because of that, the stiffening of the muscles has the effect that the feet get into a locked and somewhat cramped or twisted position; besides that, the feet are sometimes swollen, too. Because of such dressing problems, special shoes for funeral purposes have been developed, as for example by the Practical Footwear Company of Columbus, Ohio. These shoes oftentimes have laces at the hoe which makes it easier to put them on a dead person's feet. If the relatives do not want to spend extra money for burial footwear, the funeral director sometimes has to make an incision in the hoe of the ordinary footwear to get the shoes on the feet of the deceased. If worn shoes are used in a casket, the soles oftentimes do not look very good, which makes it certainly not attractive to show the feet of the deceased. Thus, there are oftentimes aesthetic reasons why the relatives prefer a viewing style in which the feet of the deceased are not visible at all.

The motto of the wise is: Beware of Surprises. At the funeral Mass for Joan Hrubec, late curator of the I.W.A.S.M., all of the pallbearers- who actually carried her casket into the church, were female. I.W.A.S. M. stands for International Women"s air and space museum- an all (feminine) Hands operation.

Coffins Corner was named for William Coffin, born in Green Bank in 1775. In 1817, Coffin built a glass blowing furnace near the bend, or corner, of Rt. 30, near where Kessler Hospital is presently. The settlement around the furnace became known as Coffins Corner.

Coffin had a son, John Hammond Coffin, who was born in 1816. He re-named the settlement Hammondtown, after his son. Today it's know as Hammonton.

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