Show curious burials Bu rials the inhabitants of mesopotamia have curious customs in the disposal of their dead the corpse Is 13 carried to the grave dressed in ordinary clothes with the face uncovered bodies are buried in shallow graves and after a period dug up again the bones being collected into a white linen bag a and nd deposited in small buildings one day says an officer of the E R A M 0 1 I saw such a bag in a church it was la belled with a wom ans name in a village near the I 1 have visited one of these storehouses of the bones of the departed the bags roost most recently placed in it were still white and whole oth ers were whole but stained brown by time those that had bad been deposited in years past had rotted away |