necropolis

The discovery was made in the Al Bahnasa necropolis, the archaeological site identified with ancient Oxyrhynchus, one of the most important cities of Greco-Roman Egypt.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026

Mitch Hutchcraft, Alico’s executive vice president of real estate, agreed to give me a personal tour of this citrus necropolis.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026

The museum suffered damage, its windows were blown out, but the explosion did not reach the necropolis nor the Roman-era triumphal arch, aqueducts and hippodrome that are also part of the site.

From Barron's ● Mar. 24, 2026

Today the glamorous necropolis is “the jewel in the crown of cemetery tourism,” Mr. Gallot notes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

Even though neither of us was superstitious, that necropolis of crosses, cupolas, and tombstones had us pretty nervous.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

Medieval necropolises and Bronze Age burial mounds called kurgans are likewise threatened, researchers write today in Antiquity.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 30, 2023

The array of sanctuaries ranges from expansive necropolises bearing multitudes of soldiers from different nationalities to humbler graveyards and individual monuments.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 20, 2023

“People reused the Etruscan necropolises multiple times to bury their dead,” Posth says.

From Science Magazine ● Sep. 23, 2021

And the public mood turned against necropolises - cities of the dead - as garden-style cemeteries became the norm.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2012

These many-colored necropolises occupy wide acres of land near every center of population in the region, occurring quite commonly along the main entrance highways to neat and historic towns.

From The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior by United States. Dept. of the Interior.