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

This illustrates the early importance of Genoa as a trading port, and the penetration of Greek customs, inhumation being the usual practice of the Ligurians.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 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

In 1804, inhumation, in the cities of France, was wholly forbidden, without any exception.

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old

The spot for inhumation is generally chosen on the advice of magicians who are supposed to know the sites which are likely to be most favourable to the deceased.

From Corea or Cho-sen The Land of the Morning Calm by Landor, Arnold Henry Savage