What happens after you die? Many people can hypothesize what will happen to your souls—is there heaven, hell, an after-life, reincarnation. No one really knows the answer to that. What we do know is what happens to you physically. Different cultures have different practices and traditions after a person’s death. Another burial place in India, is the Taj Mahal.
It was built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory ofhis third wife, Mumtaz Mahal. The Taj Mahal is an icon in the modern world for love and sometimes even considered one of the wonders of the world today.
The Etruscans would place the corpses in sarcophagi. They were mostly meant to stay above ground, hence the elaborate construction of the reclining man and woman. Some, like the Etruscan one pictured (the Sarcophagus of the Spouses) were built freestanding, and placed in a tomb or crypt.
The two reclining are dining on a couch, which represents marital bliss. “Etruscans believed that death was the journey to the afterlife and had a fear that neglected dead may become malevolent; therefore, tombs were constructed with particular care, solidity, and lavishness” (Kozlowski). They would be elaborately constructed, so the dead would not haunt the living.
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