Definition of plantation agriculture? Plantation agriculture is when crops are grown on a long, artificially established farm for sale. There are also forest and estate plantations.
Sarcophagus, Coffin. The term sarcophagus is derived from the Greek (lit. 'flesh-eater') to refer to the coffin in which the mummy was placed with the intention of protecting it.he mummy was often buried in more than one coffin, the outermost usually being rectangular and, certainly from the New Kingdom on, the innermost anthropoid. Famous examples are those of Tutankhamun, who was buried in a set of three nesting anthropoid coffins placed into a rectangular sarcophagus.
Definition: Sarcophagus refers to the carved, generally stone case in which the linen-wrapped mummy was placed. The gilded sarcophagus of King Tut with painted face depicting the boy king is probably the best known of the Egyptian sarcophagi. Sarcophagus can be used to refer to a coffin -- especially one of stone. The plural of sarcophagus is usually sarcophagi, although it is sometimes written as sarcophaguses. Sarcophagus comes from the Greek for flesh-eater.