WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -A sarcophagus is a stone coffin or a container to hold a coffin. Although early sarcophagi were made to hold coffins within, the term has come to refer to any stone coffin that is placed above ground.

Detailed explanation-2: -The word sarcophagus comes from the Greek sarx meaning “flesh", and phagein meaning “to eat"; hence sarcophagus means “flesh-eating", from the phrase lithos sarkophagos ( ), “flesh-eating stone".

Detailed explanation-3: -(noun) A stone coffin, often inscribed or decorated with sculpture.

Detailed explanation-4: -A coffin was usually made of wood and was meant to be buried in the ground or, in the case of a wealthy person, was placed inside a sarcophagus. A sarcophagus was typically made from stone and was not meant to buried in the ground.

Detailed explanation-5: -Tutankhamun’s sarcophagus and tomb are the most amazing to ever be seen. He was buried inside a series of three golden coffins nested one inside the other. The three golden coffins were put inside a granite sarcophagus and surrounded by four wooden shrines.