The Caligaes cemetery

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The Caligaes cemeteryBut how did a military funeral take place at the time? Basically in two ways: incineration (cremation) or entombment (burying) Those who died far from their homeland were usually incinerated, which was at the request of family members to facilitate transportation over time. The Romans incinerated corpses on special pyres, which thus allowed them to be messi in cineri that is incinerated, so they could be carried home. Or the entire body would be buried in a foreign land, or in the land they loved, in a sarcophagus or in open ground in the style of the Capuchin, where the deceased was placed supine in a pit and covered with tiles. Often, therefore, for convenience, people were incinerated, put in an urn and carried back to their homeland where they were kept in a c

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