The name of the cemetery I visited is called Green Lawn Cemetery & Mausoleum, Roswell, Georgia.
The Green Lawn Cemetery & Mausoleum is a place that keeps the remains of dead or deceased people. This cemetery is under a group called Dignity Memorial and it also provides a funeral home where people can hold a memorial services for their deceased loved ones. Some of the funerary rituals that are carried out in this cemetery are burial ceremonies and cremation of the body. This cemetery also allows people view their deceased family members and also bring offerings such as flowers, balloons and favorites things that deceased liked. This is related to the ancient Egyptian burial tradition when the people bring offerings so that the dead could take
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Just like the sculpted Egyptian portraits, the mausoleums are built to be symmetrical and balanced.
The foundation of the mausoleums in this cemetery were built with solid granite and the walls are made with fine marble. Some had doors while others had drawers as openings. Surrounding it were vases with flowers and some ornaments and decorations, in other words offerings, dropped by family members. The private mausoleum sort of looks like a house with two pillars on each side and the deceased body is placed inside it by the passage in the middle.
This is a stone placed over a grave and in this cemetery, there are a lot of tombstone which helps to identify each deceased person. Inscriptions such as the deceased names, date of birth, date of death and symbols are made on their