Which of These Statements Regarding Historical Practices Outside the United

question 23

Multiple Choice

Which of these statements regarding historical practices outside the United States is true ?

• A)Anthropologists have discovered a few civilizations where the people do not recognize death with a funeral.
• B)The Bible records the fact that physicians embalmed the body of the Hebrew patriarch Jacob.
• C)The Egyptian embalming process was a secret method of preservation.
• D)The historian Herodotus records embalming preparation as early as 484 AD.

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