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
The Etruscans practised inhumation, depositing the dead in a stone sarcophagus.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly
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
Lycurgus was perhaps the only Grecian legislator who recommended inhumation in temples and in cities, to accustom youth to the daily spectacle of death.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
The spot for inhumation is generally chosen on the advice of magicians who are supposed to know the sites which are likely to be most favourable to the deceased.
From Corea or Cho-sen The Land of the Morning Calm by Landor, Arnold Henry Savage
