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The tombs of early Europeans are an important starting point for grasping Western burial traditions and cultural traditions. On the one hand, early European tombs were born out of Roman burial customs, but are fundamentally different from the latter's concepts. How to understand the connection between the two is of special significance in understanding Western culture; on the other hand, early European tombs profoundly reflect people's understanding of fundamental issues such as the soul, body, and resurrection, and are a key to our early Western cultural tradition. This book starts with two representative types of tombs and saints' tombs in early Europe, highlighting the Europeans' understanding of death under the influence of Christian culture during the Roman Empire: they tended to view death as a short sleep, after which they rose from the ashes like a firebird (phoenix). The book contains about 100,000 words and more than 70 pictures.