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

At supper, after the inhumation, a mutual esteem had sprung up that rapidly ripened into love.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-21 by Various

Burning begins to take the place of inhumation as a means of disposing of the dead; Continental types of weapons make their appearance in the tombs; iron swords and daggers are even found.

From The Sea-Kings of Crete by Baikie, James

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

The materials of which these articles are formed, are jasper, quartz, granite stained by copper, and clay slate, all showing that peculiar time-worn polish which such substances acquire by long inhumation.

From Some Observations on the Ethnography and Archaeology of the American Aborigines by Morton, Samuel George