entombment

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Well, wouldn’t you go snorkeling around a solemn mass entombment if you got the chance, too?

From Slate • May 16, 2026

Massive blast doors that looked like they belonged on the largest bank vault in the universe were supposed to keep us safe, though in a nuclear war they might only have ensured our entombment.

From Salon • Dec. 7, 2025

In 1998, 14 years after the Vietnam-era soldier’s entombment, he was exhumed and positively identified as Air Force Lt.

From Washington Times • Nov. 9, 2021

Thanks to this latest exploit, evolutionary biologist Catherine La Farge arrived centuries later at Teardrop’s melting edge to find the tuft of the species Aulacomnium turgidum finally free from its icy entombment.

From Washington Post • Jul. 5, 2019

They all agree, however, that Christ rose from the dead, and that this occurred three days after the entombment.

From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Graves, Kersey