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Roman coffin to yield up secrets

Written by DeadGirl
Saturday, 19 February 2005
A RARE coffin unearthed in York could give archaeologists a unique insight into the Roman way of death 1,700 years ago. By Julie Hemmings The remains, found on a building site near The Mount, in an extensive Roman cemetery, were unusual because the body had undergone a form of mummification. Yesterday the stone sarcophagus and its contents were lifted out and taken away for testing. A white material, probably gypsum, was used to preserve the body of what archaeologists hope is a Roman, buried around 300AD. Other examples of Roman gypsum burials have been found in York, usually of high status individuals, but none has been subjected to such modern scientific analysis. The find has been handed over to York Museums Trust, with the intention of exhibiting it at the Yorkshire Museum in York. Andrew Morrison, curator of archaeology for the trust, said the mummy was the first find of its kind in the last 60 years. "It's the first opportunity in Britain to examine such remains using modern scientific techniques," he said. The sarcophagus was excavated just six inches below the surface. Archaeologist Mike Griffiths, who supervised the excavation of the site for builder Shepherd Homes, said it was amazing it had survived at all, as the site had been developed in the 17th and 19th centuries, and again in the 1960s. The Royal Army Medical Corps has offered the use of its mobile X-ray equipment to view the mummy and other tests, such as MRI scans, may follow. http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=55&ArticleID=946906

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Taphophilia?

taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries