interred

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Evidence suggests the site was prepared with care, and the victims were interred with personal belongings such as bronze jewellery and ceramic drinking vessels.

From Science Daily • Mar. 9, 2026

Her remains were instead interred in a remote cemetery, far from the family home.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026

From Scotland to China, and from Iceland to West Africa, they have been interred under heavy stones, staked or nailed into graves.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025

When Willie Lincoln, the third son of President Lincoln, died at age 11 of typhoid fever, he was interred in a mausoleum in Oak Hill Cemetery.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2025

Already they had discovered nine burials, one body placed in a big funerary urn, all apparently interred at the same time.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann