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 materials of which these articles are formed, are jasper, quartz, granite stained by copper, and clay slate, all showing that peculiar time-worn polish which such substances acquire by long inhumation.

From Some Observations on the Ethnography and Archaeology of the American Aborigines by Morton, Samuel George

With the above brief references to inhumation, let us leave the subject.

From Life on the Mississippi, Part 9. by Twain, Mark

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

It is the general opinion, that during this period the practice of inhumation, or simple burial, was commoner than that of cremation or burning, though each method was adopted.

From The Ethnology of the British Islands by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)