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

Instances show that the two rites of inhumation and cremation were practised side by side.

From The Bronze Age in Ireland by Coffey, George

The inhumation was effected at night by the widow alone.

From The Zincali: an account of the gypsies of Spain by Borrow, George Henry

Among the aboriginal Britons the custom of simple inhumation was probably prevalent, but there are not wanting evidences in support of the belief that cremation also was sometimes practised in prehistoric times.

From In Search of Gravestones Old and Curious by Vincent, W.T. (William Thomas)

With the above brief references to inhumation, let us leave the subject.

From Life on the Mississippi, Part 9. by Twain, Mark