Death and Burial in Arabia and Beyond

These papers, from a 2008 conference at the British Museum, explore cultural traditions related to death and burial across the Arabian Peninsula from prehistory to modern times. Major themes include: specific local and regional burial traditions of ancient Arabia and adjacent regions; implications of burial data for aspects of contemporaneous living societies; beliefs surrounding death and the transition to the afterlife; landscapes of death and burial; burial and pilgrimage; recent and contemporary ideas and practices relating to death and burial.