Burial, also called interment and (when applied to human burial) inhumation, is the act of placing a person or object into the ground. Usually, this is accomplished by digging a pit or trench, placing the person or object in it, and refilling it with the soil that was dug out of it. Objects are sometimes buried in order to hide them against removal or tampering. For cables and pipelines, burial provides protection and allows the ...

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• Burial - Reasons for human burial
• Burial - Burial practices
• Burial - Prevention of decay
• Burial - Inclusion of clothing and personal effects
• Burial - Body positioning
• Burial - Marking the location of the burial
• Burial - Unmarked grave
• Burial - Multiple bodies per grave
• Burial - Cremation
• Burial - Live burial
• Burial - Burial of animals
• Burial - Exhumation
• Burial - Alternatives to burial

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Burial, Burial - Reasons for human burial, Burial - Burial practices, Burial - Prevention of decay, Burial - Inclusion of clothing and personal effects, Burial - Body positioning, Burial - Marking the location of the burial, Burial - Unmarked grave, Burial - Multiple bodies per grave, Burial - Cremation, Burial - Live burial, Burial - Burial of animals, Burial - Exhumation, Burial - Alternatives to burial

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Not all cultures bury their dead, and many of those that do bury their dead do not do so in all cases. Alternatives include: Burial at sea is the practice of depositing the body in an ocean or other large body of water instead of soil. It may be disposed in a coffin, or without one. Cannibalism is the practice of eating the remains. This may be for many reasons: for example to partake of their strength, to spiritually "close the circle" by reabsorbing their life into the family or clan, to annihilate an enemy, or due to ...

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Burial, Burial - Reasons for human burial, Burial - Burial practices, Burial - Prevention of decay, Burial - Inclusion of clothing and personal effects, Burial - Body positioning, Burial - Marking the location of the burial, Burial - Unmarked grave, Burial - Multiple bodies per grave, Burial - Cremation, Burial - Live burial, Burial - Burial of animals, Burial - Exhumation, Burial - Alternatives to burial

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Like Shoshenq III, Shoshenq IV was not a son of his predecessor and the exact grounds for his claim to the throne are unknown. He ruled Egypt between Shoshenq III and Pami for either 12 or 13 Years based on different Egyptologists view of his reign. According to Dodson, excavation work in the looted NRT V Tanite tomb of Shoshenq III revealed the presence of 2 sarcophagi: one inscribed for Usermaatre Setepenre Shoshenq III and the other being an anonymous sarcophagus. The unmarked sarcophagus, however, "was clearly a secondary introduction" a ...

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Shoshenq IV, Shoshenq IV - Burial, Shoshenq IV - Bibliography

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In the tumulus-period, multiple inhumations under barrows were common, at least for the upper levels of society. In the Urnfield period, inhumation and burial in single graves prevails, though some barrows exist. In the earliest phases of the Urnfield period, man-shaped graves were dug, sometimes provided with a stone lined floor, in which the cremated remains of the deceased were spread. Only later, burial in urns became prevalent. Some scholars speculate that this may have marked a fundamental shift in people's beliefs or ...

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Urnfield, Urnfield - Chronology, Urnfield - Origin, Urnfield - Distribution and local groups, Urnfield - Burial, Urnfield - Construction of the graves, Urnfield - Grave gifts, Urnfield - Upper-class burials, Urnfield - Material culture, Urnfield - Pottery, Urnfield - Tools, Urnfield - Weapons, Urnfield - Chariots, Urnfield - Iron, Urnfield - Settlements, Urnfield - Open settlements, Urnfield - Pile dwellings, Urnfield - Fortified settlements, Urnfield - Hoards, Urnfield - Cult, Urnfield - Economy, Urnfield - Ethnic ascription, Urnfield - Migrations, Urnfield - Related cultures, Urnfield - Sites, Urnfield - Sources

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The Torah requires burial, even for executed criminals (Deut. 21:23). Jews are buried in caskets that aren't hermetically sealed. Man was created from dust, and when he dies his body is supposed to return to the dust (Gen. 3:19). Jacob and Joseph were embalmed, but that was before the Torah was given. Unclaimed dead require respectful burial (see Burial in Jew. Encyc. iii. 432b: "met miẓwah"). Jewish bereavement - Jewish view of cremation. Halakha (Jewish law), forbids cremation and holds that the soul of a cremated person cannot find its final re ...

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Jewish bereavement, Jewish bereavement - Death and dying, Jewish bereavement - Death bed, Jewish bereavement - When a person is defined as dead, Jewish bereavement - Afterlife, Jewish bereavement - Preparing the body, Jewish bereavement - Vigil, Jewish bereavement - Funeral service, Jewish bereavement - Burial, Jewish bereavement - Jewish view of cremation, Jewish bereavement - Community, Jewish bereavement - Chevra kadisha, Jewish bereavement - Zihuy Korbanot Asson ZAKA, Jewish bereavement - Mourning, Jewish bereavement - Five stages, Jewish bereavement - Unveiling, Jewish bereavement - Visiting the gravesite, Jewish bereavement - Memorial through prayer, Jewish bereavement - Mourner's Kaddish, Jewish bereavement - Yizkor, Jewish bereavement - Av HaRachamim, Jewish bereavement - Days of memorial, Jewish bereavement - Yahrzeit, Jewish bereavement - Yom Ha'Shoah, Jewish bereavement - Yom Hazikaron, Jewish bereavement - Tisha B'Av, Jewish bereavement - Fast of the First Born, Jewish bereavement - General, Jewish bereavement - Jewish concepts and topics, Jewish bereavement - Jewish ritual, Jewish bereavement - Jewish organisations, Jewish bereavement - Jewish memorial days

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In many human cultures throughout history, human corpses were usually buried in soil. Burial grounds have been uncovered all over the world. Mounds of earth, temples, and underground caverns were used to store the dead bodies of ancestors. In modern times, the custom of burying dead people below ground with a stone marker to mark the place is used in almost every modern culture, although other means such as cremation are becoming more popular in the west (cremation is the norm in India). Different cultures bury their dead in different ways. Some of these practices are heavily ritualized; others are simply practical. See also:

Burial, Burial - Reasons for human burial, Burial - Burial practices, Burial - Prevention of decay, Burial - Inclusion of clothing and personal effects, Burial - Body positioning, Burial - Marking the location of the burial, Burial - Unmarked grave, Burial - Multiple bodies per grave, Burial - Cremation, Burial - Live burial, Burial - Burial of animals, Burial - Exhumation, Burial - Alternatives to burial

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A burial liner (also known as a grave liner), in a burial of human remains, is an enclosure that is placed over a coffin, which is then buried in the ground. The casket serves as the inner enclosure of a deceased person; the liner serves as the outer enclosure. A burial liner is similar to a burial vault. However, unlike a burial vault, the liner only covers the top and sides of a casket, whereas a burial vault completely encloses a casket. The bottom of the casket in this case is in direct contact with the ground. A bur ...

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A burial vault is a sturdy box designed to protect the coffin inside of it. The body is placed within the coffin, which is then placed inside the vault. Body, coffin, and vault are buried. A burial vault serves as an outer enclosure for buried remains, the coffin serves as an inner enclosure. Vaults are made of either concrete, plastic or metal. Unlike a burial liner, which only covers the top and sides of the coffin, a vault completely encloses a coffin. Burial vaults are primarily used to keep the weight of the ground from cr ...

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Burial alive is when a person or animal is temporarily or permanently interred in a manner resembling burial (e.g. in a coffin underground, under rubble or in a cave) whilst still living. This may be deliberate, as punishment, execution, or torture, or by accident, in the wake of a disaster, or due to clinical error and a belief the person is in fact dead. The human body metabolism slows considerably in some environments, which may assist survival. But in general, burial alive if not reversed leads to death, usually through a combination of asphyxiation, dehyd ...

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Burial at sea describes the procedure of disposing of human remains in the ocean. Two reasons for burial at sea are if the deceased died while at sea and it is impractical to return the remains to shore, or if the deceased died on land but a burial at sea is requested for private or cultural reasons. In the latter case, the body might be cremated and an urn containing ashes is committed to the ocean, or the ashes are scattered on the water. Remains may also be dropped from aircraft. The ashes of a survivor of the USS Arizona (see Attack on Pearl Harbor) have been lai ...

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• Burial at sea - United States Navy
• Burial at sea - Peacetime burial USA
• Burial at sea - Wartime burial for deceased at sea
• Burial at sea - Modern burial at sea procedures
• Burial at sea - Anglicanism
• Burial at sea - Catholic
• Burial at sea - Hinduism
• Burial at sea - Islam
• Burial at sea - Judaism
• Burial at sea - Burial at sea without a body
• Burial at sea - Illegal disposal of bodies in the water
• Burial at sea - Disposal of evidence
• Burial at sea - Problems
• Burial at sea - Selection of infamous crimes
• Burial at sea - Animal burials at sea
• Burial at sea - Famous people buried at sea
• Burial at sea - Legendary and fictional people buried at sea

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Chariot burials are tombs in which the deceased was buried together with his chariot, usually including his horses and other possessions. The earliest chariots known are from chariot burials of the Andronovo (Timber-Grave) sites of the Sintashta-Petrovka culture in modern Russia, clustering along the upper Tobol river, southeast of Magnitogorsk, from around 2000 BC, containing spoke-wheeled chariots drawn by teams of two horses. This culture is at least partially derived from the earlier Yamna culture, and is generally accepted ...

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Sketch map of the major tombs in the Valley The following is a list of who is buried where in the Valley of the Kings, in Thebes (modern Luxor in Egypt) and nearby areas. Egyptologists use the acronym KV (from the words "King's Valley") to designate tombs located in the Valley of the Kings. The system was established by John Gardiner Wilkinson in 1821. Each tomb in the Valley of t ...

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• Burials in the Valley of the Kings - Original burials
• Burials in the Valley of the Kings - East Valley
• Burials in the Valley of the Kings - West Valley
• Burials in the Valley of the Kings - Deir el-Bahri

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Historically, burial at cross-roads was the method of disposing of executed criminals and suicides. At the cross-roads a rude cross usually stood, and this gave rise to the belief that these spots were selected as the next best burying-places to consecrated ground. The real explanation is that the ancient Teutonic peoples often built their altars at the cross-roads, and as human sacrifices, especially of criminals, formed part of the ritual, these spots came to be regarded as execution grounds. Hence after the introduction of Christia

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Christ Church Burial Ground in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is the final resting place of Benjamin Franklin and his wife, Deborah. The cemetery belongs to Christ Church, the Anglican church founded in 1695 and place of worship for many of the famous Revolutionary War participants, including George Washington. The burial ground is located at 5th and Arch Streets. The land for it was purchased in 1719. The cemetery is now open to the public, after being closed off for 25 years. Thousands of visitors flo ...

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Abraham Lincoln was buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, Illinois, where a 177-foot-tall granite tomb surmounted with several bronze statues of Lincoln was constructed by 1874. Lincoln's wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, and three of his four sons are also buried there (Robert Todd Lincoln is buried in Arlington National Cemetery). In the years following Lincoln's death, attempts were made to steal Lincoln's body and hold it for ransom. Around 1900, Robert Todd Lincoln decided that, in order to prevent body theft, it was necessary to b ...

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The original catacombs are a network of underground burial galleries near San Sebastiano fuori le mura, in Rome. The word now refers to any network of caves, grottos, or subterranean place that is used for the burial of the dead, or it can refer to a specific underground burial place. Famous examples are: Catacombs of Rome, in Rome, Italy Catacombs of Paris, in Paris, France Kom al Sukkfa, Catacombs of Alexandria, Egypt Catacombs of Malta in the island of Malta Catacomb ...

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The Valley of the Queens or Wadi el-Melikat is a place in Egypt where wives of Pharoahs were buried in ancient times. In ancient times, it was known as Ta-Set-Neferu, meaning –‘the place of the Children of the Pharaoh’, because along with the Queens of the 18th, 19th and 20th dynasties many princes and princesses were also buried with various members of the nobility. The valley is located near the better known Valley of the Kings, on the west bank of the Nile across from Thebes (modern Luxor) . So far over a hundred tombs have been found in the area, although most were hidden ...

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• Valley of the Queens - Principal Burials

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Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Virginia, is an American military cemetery established during the American Civil War on the grounds of Robert E. Lee's home. It is situated directly across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., next to the present day location of The Pentagon, and is served by the Arlington Cemetery station on the Blue Line of the Washington Metro system. Veterans from all the nation's wars are interred in the cemetery, from the American Revolution through the military actions in Af ...

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• Arlington National Cemetery - Tomb of the Unknowns
• Arlington National Cemetery - Other notable sites
• Arlington National Cemetery - Burial procedures
• Arlington National Cemetery - Notable burials

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Rebeccah (Rebekah or Rivkah) (רִבְקָה "Captivating", "Noose" or "Snare", Standard Hebrew Rivqa, Tiberian Hebrew Riḇqāh) is the wife of Isaac. Her story is told in the Book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible. The news of Rebeccah's birth is told to her great-uncle, Abraham, after Abraham returns from Akeidat Yitzchak (the binding of Isaac), the episode in which he was told by God to bring Isaac as a sacrifice on a mountain. Rebeccah is the daughter of Bethuel and the granddaughter ...

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• Rebeccah - Marriage to Isaac
• Rebeccah - Motherhood
• Rebeccah - Deceiving Isaac
• Rebeccah - Death and burial

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