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

His body is interred at the Washington headquarters of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, which also contains a small museum in his honour.

From BBC • Oct. 28, 2025

The next morning, we detour north to the Ossuaire de Douaumont, where the remains of 130,000 unknown French and German soldiers who died in the Battle of Verdun are interred inside a giant stone memorial.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

When Willie Lincoln, the third son of President Lincoln, died at age 11 of typhoid fever, he was interred in a mausoleum in Oak Hill Cemetery.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2025

The Chinchorro mummies were often repainted, indicating that they were not quickly interred but kept on display, perhaps for years.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann