Saqqara served as capital of Egypt, Saqqara remained in use as a burial ground for nobles. Moreover, the area became an important destination for pilgrims to a number of cult centres. Activities sprang up around the Serapeum, and extensive underground galleries were cut into the rock as burial sites for large numbers of mummified ibises, baboons, cats, dogs, and falcons. Saqqara and the surrounding areas of Abusir and Dahshur suffered damage by looters during the 2011 Egyptian protests. Store rooms were broken into, but the monuments were mostly unharmed. During routine excavations in 2011 at the dog catacomb in Saqqara necropolis,
Ship burial in Asia ears, eyes, nose, and mouth of the figures may be seen today in the wood carving of Taiwan, the Philippines, and elsewhere in Southeast Asia. Ship burial in Asia A ship burial or boat-shaped burial is a burial in which the coffin or container of the dead is shaped like a boat. At times, the container of the dead is boat-shaped in itself, and sometimes grave goods shaped like boats are also present in the burial site. This kind of burial was common among Germanic peoples, including the Vikings and Scandinavians. But archaeological evidence has shown the presence of these