What is the difference between a coffin and sarcophagus?
As nouns the difference between coffin and sarcophagus is that coffin is an oblong closed box in which a dead person is buried while sarcophagus is a stone coffin, often inscribed or decorated with sculpture. Why is it called a sarcophagus? The word sarcophagus comes from the Greek σάρξ sarx meaning “flesh”, and φαγεῖν phagein…
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