Funerals are one way we process our grief. We honour our loved ones with ceremony. These are all deeply complicated emotions, but where did they come from? It’s thought that Neanderthals may have performed funeral ceremonies, although this is debated. And, at Shanidar cave in modern-day Iraq, it’s easy to draw simularities to some of our grand buildings today – a possible mausoleum for the dead, maybe?
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