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

It is to be feared that this melancholy occurrence is more frequent than is supposed, more especially in countries where inhumation is speedily resorted to.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

The commonest method was some form of inhumation in pits, graves, or holes in the ground, in stone graves or cysts, in mounds, beneath or in houses, or in caves.

From Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 by Various

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