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  • Disposal of the dead, Iron Age.
  • Wellcome museum, primitive medicine: disposal of the dead
  • Wellcome museum, primitive medicine: disposal of the dead
  • Disposal of dead bodies during the cholera epidemic of 1835 in Palermo. Lithograph by G. Castagnola.
  • Disposal of the dead, under police supervision during a cholera epidemic in Japan. Reproduction of drawing by Meisenbach after C. Fripp.
  • The Book of the dead / [edited by A. Mayer].
  • A miracle; the raising of the dead. Etching by M. Bianchi, 1894.
  • The Chair of Grace, God the Father presenting the dead Christ. Facsimile of an engraving.
  • The sacrament of the Roman Catholic church: burial of the dead. Etching after B. Picart.
  • Burial of the dead in the graveyard of a parish church. Etching by James Taylor.
  • A gravedigger observes the resurrection of a dead woman. Aquatint by Mayr.
  • Philippines: skulls and a skeleton of the dead lying on the ground. Photograph, 19--.
  • The three living and the three dead. Collotype after the Master of the Housebook, 1488-1505.
  • The three living and the three dead. Collotype after the Master of the Housebook, 1488-1505.
  • Philippines: the dead and smoked bodies of three people seated on the ground. Photograph, 19--.
  • Burying the dead during the plague of 1665. Etching by C. Grignion after S. Wale.
  • One of the seven Acts of Mercy: burying the dead. Line engraving by S. Bourdon after himself.
  • The book of the dead : facsimile of the papyrus of Ani in the British Museum. Printed by order of the trustees.
  • The book of the dead : facsimile of the papyrus of Ani in the British Museum. Printed by order of the trustees.
  • The book of the dead : facsimile of the papyrus of Ani in the British Museum. Printed by order of the trustees.
  • The Fosse Commune in the cemetery of Père La Chaise claiming their dead. Wood engraving.
  • The good Samaritan tending the wounds of a half-dead traveller. Mezzotint by R. Robinson.
  • Christ raises the son of the widow of Nain from the dead. Engraving by J. Matham after F. Zuccaro.
  • Sarawak: a ornamented house constructed for the body of a dead tribal chief. Photograph.
  • Franco-Prussian War: peasants going to bury the dead from the Battle of Worth. Wood engraving.
  • The resurrection of the dead. Etching by G.B. Leonetti after C. Cencioni after L. Signorelli.
  • Kamaman, Trengganu, Malaya: controlled tipping trench in the process of being filled, in an area of ground used for refuse disposal. Photograph, 1948.
  • Bombay (Mumbai): a Parsee (Parsi) "Tower of silence" where the bodies of the dead are exposed to vultures. Photograph.
  • War in Egypt, Egypt: searching for the wounded and dead after the Battle of Kassassin. Wood engraving.
  • A pigeon perched on the branch of a dead tree. Etching by C. M. Fessard.