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CorgisHaveNoKnees t1_jcc3wx6 wrote

I thought Romans cremated.

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ZippyParakeet t1_jcd6yzb wrote

They stopped it after the Christianisation of the Empire. People forget that the Roman Empire was Christian in its later years.

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PM_ME_YOUR_WIRING t1_jcd3sop wrote

That was the more common method from the formation of Rome to the mid-2nd century AD, inhumation (or burial) eventually took over as the preferred method.

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