> On this site researchers have found detailed similarities between two graves that were built hundreds of years apart
Vikings may have been influenced by the Romans, but burials have followed remarkably similar patterns for thousands of years all over the world with no influence from outside:
The dead are often buried with items to help them in an afterlife - food, money or something to trade to help the journey.
With items that were significant to them or their role in their life - jewellery, weapons, tools.
And are often laid out straight in 'best' clothes, relatives hold vigil over the body until burial/cremation etc.
We also base burials on the burials we've seen - so is it strange that they build tombstones like the old (Roman) one? In the same way that Egyptian rulers wanted a pyramid like their predecessor?
Vikings may have been influenced by the Romans, but burials have followed remarkably similar patterns for thousands of years all over the world with no influence from outside:
The dead are often buried with items to help them in an afterlife - food, money or something to trade to help the journey.
With items that were significant to them or their role in their life - jewellery, weapons, tools.
And are often laid out straight in 'best' clothes, relatives hold vigil over the body until burial/cremation etc.
We also base burials on the burials we've seen - so is it strange that they build tombstones like the old (Roman) one? In the same way that Egyptian rulers wanted a pyramid like their predecessor?