
Merenptah">Image:Egypt.KV8.01.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Stone sarcophagus of Merenptah A sarcophagus is a stone container for a coffin or body. The word comes from Greek language "sarx" meaning flesh, and "Phagos" meaning to eat, so ''sarkophagos'' (''σαρκοφαγος''), which means "eater of flesh". Herodotus believed, erroneously, that sarcophagi (the Latin plural) were carved from a special kind of rock that consumed the flesh of the corpse inside. Sarcophagi were usually carved, decorated or built ornately. Some were built to be freestanding above ground, as a part of an elaborate tomb. Others were made for burial, or were placed in crypts. In Ancient Egypt, a sarcophagus was usually the external layer of protection for a royal History of Egyptian mummy, with several layers of coffins nested within. The word sarcophagus is often used in context of the Chernobyl accident nuclear disaster, to describe a concrete tomb structure that has been erected to isolate the remains of the collapsed atomic reactor from the environment. [[Image:Anthropoid sarcophagus discovered at Cadiz - Project Gutenberg eText 15052.png|frame|right|Anthropoid sarcophagus discovered at Cádiz]] ==See also== * List of Egypt-related topics, Burials in the Valley of the Kings
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Merenptah">Image:Egypt.KV8.01.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Stone sarcophagus of Merenptah A sarcophagus is a stone container for a coffin or body. The word comes from Greek language "sarx" meaning flesh, and "Phagos" meaning to eat, so ''sarkophagos'' (''σαρκοφαγος''), which means "eater of flesh". Herodotus believed, erroneously, that sarcophagi (the Latin plural) were carved from a special kind of rock that consumed the flesh of the corpse inside. Sarcophagi were usually carved, decorated or built ornately. Some were built to be freestanding above ground, as a part of an elaborate tomb. Others were made for burial, or were placed in crypts. In Ancient Egypt, a sarcophagus was usually the external layer of protection for a royal History of Egyptian mummy, with several layers of coffins nested within. The word sarcophagus is often used in context of the Chernobyl accident nuclear disaster, to describe a concrete tomb structure that has been erected to isolate the remains of the collapsed atomic reactor from the environment. [[Image:Anthropoid sarcophagus discovered at Cadiz - Project Gutenberg eText 15052.png|frame|right|Anthropoid sarcophagus discovered at Cádiz]] ==See also== * List of Egypt-related topics, Burials in the Valley of the Kings
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