entombment

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Well, wouldn’t you go snorkeling around a solemn mass entombment if you got the chance, too?

From Slate • May 16, 2026

Massive blast doors that looked like they belonged on the largest bank vault in the universe were supposed to keep us safe, though in a nuclear war they might only have ensured our entombment.

From Salon • Dec. 7, 2025

KRAKOW, Poland — On a slab in the middle of the stage is the body of an elderly man, being prepared for entombment.

From Washington Post • Jan. 19, 2023

Now, 100 years after the first entombment, Blassie’s exhumation is part of a broader challenge to “the nationalist ideology” that the tombs represent, said Michael J. Allen, a history professor at Northwestern University.

From Washington Times • Nov. 9, 2021

The twenty-third and twenty-fifth, including the twenty-fourth, would comprise a period of three days, the time of the entombment.

From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Graves, Kersey