She explained that burying goods with the deceased is one of humanity’s earliest traditions. “The universal belief across many world cultures was that you needed to bring items from your current life with you into the afterlife. Much of what we know from history comes from what archaeologists can glean from what the dead wanted to take with them. Famously, we can think of the tomb of Tutankhamun, the Terracotta Army, the ship burial of Sutton Hoo, and so on.”