Funerary Customs and Concepts of Death

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Across
  1. 2. An 'empty tomb' to commemorate an individual buried elsewhere in the world or whose body was not retrieved
  2. 4. The Latin word for tomb
  3. 6. The realm of the afterlife that those favoured by the gods would enter (Roman)
  4. 9. The Egyptian practice of preserving the body after death using salt and resin
  5. 10. The Egyptian God of embalming that would watch the scales as they weighed your heart against a feather
Down
  1. 1. The shared Roman mausoleums used to house the ashes of the deceased
  2. 3. The Roman festival in honour of the dead, specifically family ancestors the festival was held mostly in the home
  3. 5. The Egyptian word for the underworld
  4. 7. The name of the ferryman in Roman mythology that would escort souls to the afterlife
  5. 8. The Latin word for the Death masks that would be worn at funerals and displayed in the house