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sarcophagus

The origin and history of sarcophagus.

Etymology

From Latin "sarcophagus," from Greek "sarkophagos," literally "flesh-eating" — originally describing a type of limestone believed to dissolve the flesh of corpses, later used for stone coffins.

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