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

The casting a handful of soil on the coffin is emblematic of the complete inhumation.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 86, June 21, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. by Various

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

He soon found that securing the substitute and securing the body of O'Iwa San for proper inhumation were kindred problems.

From The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) by De Benneville, James S. (James Seguin)