Burial
Burial is the act of placing an object or dead body into the ground, specifically a grave.
Human bodies are usually buried in a cemetery. It is common practice in many places to put bodies into a coffin and place the coffin into the grave. The grave is then usually marked with a headstone so that people know who has died and can visit them.
In the past, often during times of war, many bodies have been placed into the same grave without coffins. This is called a mass burial or a mass grave.
Burial Media
Unearthed grave from the medieval Poulton Chapel
Reconstruction of the Mesolithic tomb of two women from Téviec, Brittany
A naturally mummified body in the British Museum
Zoroastrian Towers of Silence outside Yazd, Yazd province, Iran
Kanji inscriptions engraved on headstones in the Japanese Cemetery in Broome, Western Australia
Honor Oak Crematorium, Camberwell New Cemetery, London. Architect Maurice Webb.
Soldiers' dog cemetery at Edinburgh Castle
Adashino Nembutsuji in Kyoto, Japan stands on a site where Japanese people once abandoned the bodies of the dead without burial
