Neanderthals would bury\nsoldiers’ dead bodies, including their objects. Many human-hunter groups used\nto gather and bury corpses at specific locations that were used as a pilgrimage\nsite for these nomads. So, what did soldiers do with the corpses of their\ncomrades and enemies? \n\n\n\n
To learn about what happened to soldiers’ dead bodies after battles, we have to take account of many battles throughout history. So without wasting time, let’s get started.\n\n\n\n According to Greek historians,\nGreeks always made an effort to respect the burial customs of the dead after\nthe battle, and they didn’t collect the bodies of enemy soldiers. E.g.\nFollowing the Battle of Chaeronea between the Athenians and Philip II of\nMacedonia, both sides buried the corpses of soldiers according to their\nreligious customs of that period. It was done by both sides out of respect for\nthe bravery that the fallen soldiers showed in the battle. \n\n\n\n Except for Spartans, most Greek\nsocieties made efforts to bury their soldier’s corpses near the city they came\nfrom if the time allowed it.\n\n\n\n As said, the exception to this is Spartans, who mostly buried the dead soldiers on the battleground they were killed at. Instead of taking all the valuable things from the dead soldiers, each dead Spartan was buried with their armor and weapons. \n\n\n\n Most of their soldiers paid a small amount each month to pay for funeral expenses that could occur if they fall in the battle. The Romans also made efforts to recover the bodies of dead soldiers, and if time allowed, they also buried\/cremated the individuals. If burying or cremating wasn’t possible, the bodies of fallen soldiers were collected and given a mass cremation. \n\n\n\n Finally, coming to World War 1\nand 2, individual units were given the responsibility of disposal of their\ncorpses with both Allied and Axis forces having their own set of rules on how\nthis should be handled. \n\n\n\n During the WW1 and 2, some\nguidelines indicated that mass graves should be close to railway lines and\nshould feature a pathway, the main intention behind this was that those places\ncould turn into war cemeteries. \n\n\n\n So, throughout the history of battles,\ndifferent things were done to the soldiers’ corpses, depending on where they\nwere battling. \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Neanderthals would bury soldiers’ dead bodies, including their objects. Many human-hunter groups used to gather and bury corpses at specific locations that were used as a pilgrimage site for these nomads. So, what did soldiers do with the corpses of their comrades and enemies? To learn about what happened to soldiers’ dead bodies after battles, […]\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":3215,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard"},"jnews_primary_category":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pastpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pastpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pastpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3216,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214\/revisions\/3216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pastpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What Greek did with the corpses after battle\n\n\n\n
What Romans did with the corpses after battle\n\n\n\n
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