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Updated: May 10, 2025
That the dead were always buried, and that cremation was practically unknown, may now be regarded as certain. The conception of Aralû, which, we have seen, belongs to the most ancient period of religion, is only intelligible upon the assumption that burial was the prevailing custom. On one of the oldest monuments of Babylonian art, the stele of vultures, earth-burial is represented.
She lived long enough to see her daughter blossom into girlhood, then, she died. I could not bear to have her laid in the damp, wormy earth you know in our creed earth-burial is not practiced, so I laid her tenderly away in a king's tomb of antiquity, a tomb known only to myself and one who assisted me to lay her in her last resting-place.
Then there is the earth-burial of the Igalwas and M'pongwe, and the beating into unrecognisable pulp of the body which, I am told on good native authority, is the method of several Upper Ogowe tribes, including the Adoomas.
On the stele of vultures, representing the triumph of Eannatum over his enemies, attendants are seen building a mound over the symmetrically arranged bodies of the king's soldiers slain in battle. The monument belongs to the most ancient period of Babylonian history, and we are justified, therefore, in regarding this method of earth-burial as the oldest in vogue.
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