inhumation

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But it is Mr. Blair’s account of several millennia of inhumation and exhumation, rather than several centuries of fiction writing, that raises the most significant questions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025

The Etruscans practised inhumation, depositing the dead in a stone sarcophagus.

From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly

The last occupant was said to have departed this life as late as 1835, adding, by the comparative newness of his inhumation, to the horrors of the scene.

From Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay by Roberts, Miss Emma

Most decidedly the finger of heaven must be recognised in the impenetrability of the mysterious inhumation performed by Moiselet.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 381, July 18, 1829 by Various

These necropoli, in which inhumation appears to have been almost exclusively used, should be divided into two large groups.

From The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 by Various