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
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
He identified the change from 57cremation to inhumation with that from heathenism to Christianity.
From Anglo-Saxon Literature by Earle, John
Funeral Rites.—Both inhumation and cremation were practised in heathen times.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various
