Our April meeting (Sunday 12th April, ONLINE via Zoom) will feature Professor Rita Lucarelli giving a talk on "Coffins as Magical Machines: Visualizing Ancient Egyptian Funerary Texts in 3D" (1/5)
#egyptology #ancientEgypt #coffins #bookOfTheDead #ancientHistory
For once The Times has the subhead right
The comments are apt as well…
An old ossuary in Portugal. Not abandoned, I just thought it was a perfect mix of spooky-pretty ☠️
#Portugal #Ossuary #Death #Coffin #Coffins #Macabre #Spooky #Photography
Saturday, December 6, 2025
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My new video…
Ancient Coffins and the “New Climate Denial”
https://youtu.be/PIWkizsvGNQ?si=vqB_XEV-aFMT20mk
#climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateScience #ClimateTech #coffins #denial #weather #science
Greater Accra, 2024
(Coffin: Eric Kpakpo)
Relatives bid farewell to a fisher in his coffin.The night before the burial, a vigil is held at traditional funerals and often at Christian funerals, too. This takes place either in a room in the house of the bereaved family or in a tent rented out by the funeral director.
Greater Accra, 2024 (Coffin: Tawiah)
The family of the chief of the fishers honours him with a whale shark. This is considered to be the largest and strongest of the sharks, so such a coffin also symbolises the high status of the deceased.
Central Region, 2023 (Coffin: Daniel Mensah)
For employees of the Ghana Railway Company it is customary to honour a deceased colleague in a coffin in the shape and colour of a Ghana Railway locomotive.
Greater Accra, 2019 (Coffin: Eric Kpakpo)
Relatives carry the coffin of a pineapple seller to her grave.
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