Burials and cemeteries in Ancient Iraq

Lecturer Adel Faiq Rasheed, Assistant

	Burials and cemeteries in Ancient Iraq
Journal of The Iraqi University
Article 1, Volume 3, Issue 34, 2016, Pages 381-410
Author
Assistant Lecturer Adel Faiq Rasheed
Abstract
Burial is one of the oldest human habits acquired in how to deal with the human body. The Koran mentioned in Surat al-Maida the oldest incident killed when Cain killed his brother Abel and stand unable to bury the body of his brother until God sent a horse to teach him how to turn his brother. The tombs and tombs revealed many of the old man's beliefs and customs from the Stone Age to the tombs of the Assyrian queens. The time frame included searching for the burial of the deceased's body and the shape of the tomb, which evolved from its simple shape, Developed in the form of rooms built with a brick dome. The graves contained funerary gifts that revealed a belief and a belief in the existence of a kind of life after death in the elderly so they put the necessities and properties of the deceased in addition to the tools and utensils needed such as drinking glasses and food dishes. These funerary gifts evolved in historical times to put cylindrical seals or what Indicates the craft of the deceased and made him. The time frame of this study starts from about 60-35 thousand years BC and ends at the Assyrian period, where the graves were examined from the direction of the head of the dead at the burial, as well as the number of structures inside the tomb as well as the study of funerary gifts and its location for the deceased. The most important human practices in how to deal with the body, which showed a large part of the thought and beliefs of the ancient population of Iraq and the gods that they allocated to the underworld and the myths they woven about the form and the essence of life after death, as well as curses on anyone who tries to destroy or tampering with the contents of the cemetery.

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