[sodpoodle]

Pondering how many humans have lived and died since recorded time (in the billions) you have to wonder where are their remains? We have certainly run out of Churchyard space and with cemeteries are being filled to the brim.... cremation appears to be the solution.

Interesting article here on a million bodies found in Egypt.
http://rt.com/news/215115-egypt-million-mummies-discovered/

[SunkenCiv]

40 billion; more than 95 percent of those don't exist any longer, although the grave markers may survive. Romans did cremation at least as often as inhumation, and of course, people killed in the arena sometimes wound up in the food chain instead of being conventionally taken care of. Cemetery with one MILLION mummies unearthed in Egypt: 1,500-year-old desert necropolis