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Croesus, last king of Lydia from c560 BC. Defeated and imprisoned by Cyrus the Great 546 BC. Legend has it that Croesus was p...
Croesus, last king of Lydia from c560 BC. Defeated and imprisoned by Cyrus the Great 546 BC. Legend has it that Croesus was put on funeral pyre and when fire took hold he called on Apollo for help and rain fell, putting out fire.

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Meherangarh Fort, 'Sati' Marks of the widows of Majarajah Ma Singh, who threw themselves on his funeral pyre in 1843. Jodhpur...
Meherangarh Fort, 'Sati' Marks of the widows of Majarajah Ma Singh, who threw themselves on his funeral pyre in 1843. Jodhpur. Rajasthan. India

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Meherangarh Fort, "Sati" Marks of the widows of Majarajah Ma Singh, who threw themselves on his funeral pyre in 1843. Jodhpur...
Meherangarh Fort, "Sati" Marks of the widows of Majarajah Ma Singh, who threw themselves on his funeral pyre in 1843. Jodhpur. Rajasthan. India.

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'Sati' Marks of the widows of Maharaja Man Singh's. Widows who threw themselves on his funeral pyre in 1843. Jodhpur. Rajasth...
'Sati' Marks of the widows of Maharaja Man Singh's. Widows who threw themselves on his funeral pyre in 1843. Jodhpur. Rajasthan. India.

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Roman soldiers taking part in Decursio - ritual circling of funeral pyre. Detail of relief from the Antonine Column, Rome ere...
Roman soldiers taking part in Decursio - ritual circling of funeral pyre. Detail of relief from the Antonine Column, Rome erected c180-196 by Commodus

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Roman soldiers taking part in Decursio - ritual circling of funeral pyre. Detail of relief from the Antonine Column, Rome ere...
Roman soldiers taking part in Decursio - ritual circling of funeral pyre. Detail of relief from the Antonine Column, Rome erected c180-196 by Commodus

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Handprints of Maharaja Man Singh's widows that immolated themselves in 1843. Rajasthan. India.

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Detail of flames, intimate ceremony for grandfather's death first anniversary at the Jade Buddha temple. Shanghai. China

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Roman soldiers taking part in Decursio - ritual circling of funeral pyre. Detail of relief from the Antonine Column, Rome ere...
Roman soldiers taking part in Decursio - ritual circling of funeral pyre. Detail of relief from the Antonine Column, Rome erected c180-196 by Commodus
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