Students with Stele (IMAGE)

University of Chicago

Students with Stele

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Virginia Rimmer and Benjamin Thomas, both Ph.D. students in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations of the University of Chicago, look at a freshly excavated funerary monument that reveals the belief that the soul lived in the stone after the departed person's death.

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