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

In burials discovered from sixth-century Britain, human remains have been found to have been interred in striking, unusual ways.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025

The jewels "cannot be treated as specimens" but as the "sacred body and originally interred offerings to the sacred body" of the Buddha, the post said.

From BBC • May 6, 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