Saturday, February 2, 2008

Word of the Week #1 edited

Sarcophagi 
Source: My brother's homework handout on Mini Tombs 
How it was used: Some mummies have been found within multiple nesting sarcophagi.
Definition: (noun) 1. a stone coffin, edp. one bearing sculptures, inscriptions, ect., often displayed as a monument 2. a kind of stone thought to consume the flesh of corpses, used for coffins
Sentence: The mummy hunters opened up the sarcophagi and found an ancient mummy inside. 

2 comments:

camccune said...

Interesting word; good sentence. But fix "My brothers homework" -- it's possessive (his homework), not plural as shown here.

camccune said...

Thanks for fixing it.