Poldy

In article <[email protected]>,
B Vaughan<[email protected]> wrote:

> >It's not just Christian burial grounds either. The Egyptian mummies
> >aren't terribly interesting either.
>
> You should say they're not interesting to you. Obviously they're
> interesting to many others. You have to understand some of the history
> and culture of a people to find their burial customs interesting. I'm
> interested in Etruscan tombs, also, partly because the only way we
> have to understand how these people lived and thought is to see how
> they buried their dead.

Isn't it how they buried their rich dead?

Only they could afford all the rituals and the post-mortem care with
which they were interred?

I suppose ancient cultures were more preoccupied with posterity than
average people now.