1373-357 - Detail of the Tomb of Pius XI, located within the Vatican Grottoes beneath St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, UNESCO World Heritage Site, papal enclave in Rome, Lazio, Italy, Europe
801-4074 - Porters Carrying Items to Funeral, Tomb of Sennefer, TT96, Tombs of the Nobles, Ancient Thebes, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Luxor, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
832-402370 - August 24, 2020, Springfield, Illinois, USA: After the April 14, 1865 assassination of Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, a funeral train transported his remains for burial in his hometown of Springfield, Illinois
832-402367 - August 24, 2020, Springfield, Illinois, USA: After the April 14, 1865 assassination of Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, a funeral train transported his remains for burial in his hometown of Springfield, Illinois
809-8609 - The body of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI lying in State at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, January 3, 2023, Vatican, Rome, Lazio, Italy, Europe
832-394092 - Gravestone with ornaments at the historic Jewish cemetery, established 1682, last burial 1941, Schmieheim, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe
1350-3863 - Playing drums in a funeral for the death of a person due to Coronavirus and AIDS in a small village near Kitui city in the Kamba country in Kenya, Africa.
1350-2075 - Artemidora, A.D. 90-100. From Meir. Mummy. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. The mask portrays a young woman lying flat as if upon her bier. Her hair is arranged in tiers of snail curls over her forehead. Alongside her face flows a black Egyptian-style wig, the long locks bound with narrow rings of gold in pharaonic fashion.
1350-2073 - New Ireland Malagan funerary statue in at the Metropolitan Museum of Art museum, New York, USA. New Ireland is part of the Bismarck Archipelago, situated north of New Guinea, and has an estimated population of 100,000. The Dutch first encountered the island in 1616, and today New Ireland is a province of Papua New Guinea. Nineteen different languages are spoken on the island, and it is divided by a chain of mountains into three distinct regions: northern, central, and southeastern. The art of New Ireland traditionally centered on mortuary ceremonies and feasts to honor the dead. In northern New Ireland, the name given to these elaborate ceremonies is malagan, which is also the term used for the carved and painted sculptures associated with the ceremonies.
1350-1636 - Person who recovers wood used in cremation, which has not burned completely, in Manikarnika Ghat, the burning ghat, on the banks of Ganges river, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.
832-379910 - Men of the ethnic group of the Bamileke with traditional masks, Dance of Death in honor of a deceased person, Badenkop, West Region, Cameroon, Africa
832-379913 - Men of the ethnic group of the Bamileke with traditional masks, Dance of Death in honor of a deceased person, Badenkop, West Region, Cameroon, Africa
832-379912 - Men of the ethnic group of the Bamileke with traditional masks, Dance of Death in honor of a deceased person, Badenkop, West Region, Cameroon, Africa
832-379911 - Men of the ethnic group of the Bamileke with traditional masks, Dance of Death in honor of a deceased person, Badenkop, West Region, Cameroon, Africa
1116-39357 - People in a formal funeral procession called Ma’passa Tedong at a rante, the ceremonial site for a Torajan funeral, in Sereale, Toraja Land, South Sulawesi, Indonesia
1116-39347 - Balinese men carrying the wadah, a temple-shaped structure made of paper and light wood, containing the ashes of the deceased in a funeral procession to deposit the ashes in the Unda river following the Ngaben or Cremation Ceremony, Klungkung, Bali, Indonesia
1116-39350 - Pigs tied to bamboo sticks at the rante, the ceremonial site where the meat of slaughtered cattle will be distributed to the guests of a Torajan funeral, in Sereale, Toraja Land, South Sulawesi, Indonesia
1116-39352 - People in a formal funeral procession called Ma’passa Tedong at a rante, the ceremonial site for a Torajan funeral, in Sereale, Toraja Land, South Sulawesi, Indonesia
1116-39351 - Pigs tied to bamboo sticks at the rante, the ceremonial site where the meat of slaughtered cattle will be distributed to the guests of a Torajan funeral, in Sereale, Toraja Land, South Sulawesi, Indonesia
832-373556 - Traditional funeral, people standing around a body on a pyre, while an untouchable priest of the lowest caste spreads wet reed over the body, Pashupatinath, Nepal, Asia
1161-4355 - Tourists watch body bathed in River Ganges and traditional Hindu cremation on funeral pyre at Manikarnika Ghat in Holy City of Varanasi, Benares, India
1161-4356 - Tourists watch body bathed in River Ganges and traditional Hindu cremation on funeral pyre at Manikarnika Ghat in Holy City of Varanasi, Benares, India