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Coffins

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• Burial

• Coffins -- Egypt
• Mummy cases
• Sarcophagi

• Caskets (Coffins)

• Cercueils des Cachettes Royales (Catalogue Général des Antiquités Égyptiennes du Musée de Caire, #61001-61044, in French; Cairo: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1909), by Georges Daressy
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Oxygen-Free Museum Cases, ed. by Shin Maekawa (PDF and page images at getty.edu and Google)

• Three Etruscan Painted Sarcophagi (Field Museum of Natural History publication #195; 1917), by F. B. Tarbell (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Roman Sarcophagi in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1978), by Anna Marguerite McCann (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Myth, Meaning, and Memory on Roman Sarcophagi (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), by Michael Koortbojian (HTML at UC Press)

• Roman Sarcophagi in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1978), by Anna Marguerite McCann (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Hidden House: A Cliff Ruin in Sycamore Canyon, Central Arizona (Museum of Northern Arizona bulletin #29; Flagstaff: Northern Arizona Society of Science and Art, 1956), by Keith A. Dixon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Metropolitan Interments Act, 1850, with Introduction, Notes, and Appendix (London: Shaw and Sons, 1850), by Great Britain, ed. by W. Cunningham Glen (multiple formats at Google)

• The Metropolitan Interments Act, 1850, with Introduction, Notes, and Appendix (London: Shaw and Sons, 1850), by Great Britain, ed. by W. Cunningham Glen (multiple formats at Google)

• The Metropolitan Interments Act, 1850, with Introduction, Notes, and Appendix (London: Shaw and Sons, 1850), by Great Britain, ed. by W. Cunningham Glen (multiple formats at Google)

• Romano-British Cemeteries at Cirencester (Cirencester, UK: Cirencester Excavation Committee, Corinium Museum, 1982), by Alan McWhirr, Linda Viner, and Calvin Wells (PDF at Cotswold Archaeology)

• Shakespeare's Bones: The Proposal to Disinter Them, Considered in Relation to Their Possible Bearing on His Portraiture, by C. M. Ingleby (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Hydriotaphia: Urn Burial, by Thomas Browne (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• Religio Medici, A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1862), by Thomas Browne (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Religio Medici and Other Essays (Manchester: Sherratt and Hughes, 1902), by Thomas Browne, ed. by D. Lloyd Roberts (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Religio Medici and Other Writings of Sir Thomas Browne (London: J. M. Dent and Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton, 1912), by Thomas Browne, contrib. by C. H. Herford (multiple formats at archive.org)

• As I Lay Dying (originally published 1930), by William Faulkner (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• In the "Stranger People's" Country (New York: Harper and Bros., 1891), by Mary Noailles Murfree (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Phoenician Mortuary Practice in the Iron Age I - III (ca. 1200 - ca. 300 BCE) Levantine "Homeland" (University of Michigan dissertation; 2013), by Helen M. Dixon (page images at HathiTrust)

• Phoenician Mortuary Practice in the Iron Age I - III (ca. 1200 - ca. 300 BCE) Levantine "Homeland" (University of Michigan dissertation; 2013), by Helen M. Dixon (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Danger of Premature Internment, Proved from Many Remarkable Instances of People Who Have Recovered After Being Laid Out for Dead, and of Others Entombed Alive, for Want of Being Properly Examined Prior to Interment (London: Printed for W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1816), by Joseph Taylor (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Premature Burial and How it May Be Prevented: With Special Reference to Trance, Catalepsy, and Other Forms of Suspended Animation (second edition; London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co., 1905), by William Tebb and Edward Perry Vollum, ed. by Walter R. Hadwen (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Pioneers at Peace: The Story of St John's Cemetery, Gordon (Sydney, NSW: Spurwood Press, c1994), by Jill Lyons (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Australia)

• A Guide to the American Battle Fields in Europe (Washington: GPO, 1927), by American Battle Monuments Commission (page images at HathiTrust)

• Medum (London: D. Nutt, 1892), by W. M. Flinders Petrie, contrib. by F. Ll. Griffith, Alfred Wiedemann, W. J. Russell, and W. E. Crum (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Guide to the American Battle Fields in Europe (Washington: GPO, 1927), by American Battle Monuments Commission (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Guide to the American Battle Fields in Europe (Washington: GPO, 1927), by American Battle Monuments Commission (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Middle Bronze Age IIA Cemetery at Gesher: Final Report (published as v. 62 of Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research; c2007), ed. by Yosef Garfinkel and Susan Cohen (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Visit to the Catacombs, or First Christian Cemeteries of Rome, and a Midnight Visit to Mount Vesuvius (London: Robinson, 1849), by Selina Bunbury (multiple formats at Google)
• Relazione Generale Degli Scavi e Scoperte Fatte Lungo la Via Latina, Redatta Dallo Stesso Intraprendente e Scopritore Lorenzo Fortunati dall'Ottobre 1857 all'Ottobre 1858; Cui fa Seguito l'Atlante Composto di 30 e più Tavole Grandi incise in Rame (in Italian; Rome: Tip. Tiberina, 1859), by Lorenzo Fortunati, contrib. by Raffaele Garrucci (multiple formats at Google)

• The Graveyard Book (read by the author in its entirety; 2008), by Neil Gaiman (videos at Youtube)

• An Address Delivered on the Dedication of the Cave Hill Cemetery, Near Louisville, July 25, 1848 (Louisville, KU: Printed at the Courier Job-Room, 1848), by Edward P. Humphrey (page images at HathiTrust)

• Silent City on a Hill: Landscapes of Memory and Boston's Mount Auburn Cemetery (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by Blanche M. G. Linden (PDF at Ohio State)

• Silent City on a Hill: Landscapes of Memory and Boston's Mount Auburn Cemetery (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by Blanche M. G. Linden (PDF at Ohio State)

• Our Pastors in Calvary: Biographical Sketches of Parish Priests of St. Louis, 1854-1924 (St. Louis: Blackwell Wielandy, c1924), by Mary Constance Smith (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Montauk Cemetery at Easthampton, Long Island (New York: Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, 1920), by Foster H. Saville (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gettysburg Address, by Abraham Lincoln (multiple editions)
• Año Lincoln, 1959 (in Spanish; published in Mexico, ca. 1959), by United States Information Service, contrib. by Abraham Lincoln (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Cemeteries and Gravemarkers: Voices of American Culture (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1992), ed. by Richard E. Meyer (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Report of Commissioner for Marking Confederate Graves (Washington: GPO, 1912), by James H. Berry
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Tombs and Catacombs of the Appian Way (History of Cremation): A Lecture Delivered in Rome, January 1891, Before a Select Audience of English and American Visitors (Rome: Società Laziale, 1892), by Olinto L. Spadoni
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Die Gottgeweihten Jungfrauen in den Ersten Jahrhunderten der Kirche (in German; Freiburg im Breisgau et al.: Herder, 1892), by Josef Wilpert (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Form of Consecration of a Church or Chappel, and of the Place of Christian Burial (1675), by Lancelot Andrewes (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Graves of the Fallen (London: Imperial War Graves Commission, ca. 1919), by Rudyard Kipling, illust. by Douglas MacPherson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Graves of the Fallen (London: Imperial War Graves Commission, ca. 1919), by Rudyard Kipling, illust. by Douglas MacPherson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Man Into Superman, by R. C. W. Ettinger (PDF with commentary at cryonics.org)

• Cryonics (partial serial archives)

• Destruction and Human Remains: Disposal and Concealment in Genocide and Mass Violence (Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2014), ed. by Élisabeth Gessat-Anstett and Jean-Marc Dreyfus (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• Human Remains and Mass Violence: Methodological Approaches (Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2014), ed. by Jean-Marc Dreyfus and Élisabeth Gessat-Anstett (PDF with commenary at oapen.org)

• Cremation and Urn Burial: or, The Cemeteries of the Future (1889), by W. Robinson (HTML with commentary at victorianlondon.org)

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