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A necropolis (plural: necropoleis) is a large cemetery
Cemetery

A cemetery is a place in which death body and cremation are burial. The term cemetery implies that the land is specifically designated as a burying ground....
 or burial place (from Greek
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
 nekropolis "city of the dead").






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A necropolis (plural: necropoleis) is a large cemetery
Cemetery

A cemetery is a place in which death body and cremation are burial. The term cemetery implies that the land is specifically designated as a burying ground....
 or burial place (from Greek
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
 nekropolis "city of the dead"). Apart from the occasional application of the word to modern cemeteries outside large towns, the term is chiefly used of burial grounds, often an abandoned city or town, near the sites of the centers of ancient civilizations.

Grave field
Grave field

A grave field is a prehistoric cemetery, typically of Bronze Age Europe and Iron Age Europe.Grave fields are distinguished from necropolis by the former's lack of above-ground structures, buildings, or grave markers....
 is a term for prehistoric burial grounds that do not include any above-ground structures or markers. These include row graves, urnfields, tumuli, etc.

List of examples


Algeria
Algeria

Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country located in North Africa. It is the largest country of the Mediterranean sea, second largest in the Arab World, and the second largest on the African continent and the eleventh-largest country in the world in terms of land area....
  • Nepasa
  • Roknia

Austria
Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
  • Imperial Crypt
    Imperial Crypt, Vienna

    Since 1633 The Imperial Crypt in Vienna has been the principal place of entombment for the Habsburg dynasty, hereditary Emperors of the Holy Roman Empire, and their descendants....
     (Vienna
    Vienna

    Vienna is the Capital of Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million...
    )
  • Sulm valley necropolis
    Burgstallkogel (Sulm valley)

    The Burgstallkogel is a hill situated near the confluence of the Sulm and the Saggau river valleys in Southern Styria in Austria, about 30 km south of Graz between Gleinst?tten and Kleinklein....

Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
  • Rookwood Necropolis (Sydney)
  • The Necropolis, Springvale (Melbourne)
  • Melbourne General Cemetery
    Melbourne General Cemetery

    The Melbourne General Cemetery is a large necropolis located 2 km north of the city of Melbourne in the suburb of Carlton North, Victoria....


Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country on the Balkans peninsula of South Eastern Europe with an area of 51,129 square kilometres . Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the south, Bosnia and Herzegovina is Landlocked#Nearly landlocked, except for 26 kilometres of the Adriatic Sea coas...
 
  • Radimlja
    Radimlja

    Radimlja is a stecak necropolis located in Stolac, Bosnia and Herzegovina....

Bulgaria
Bulgaria

The state of Bulgaria , Scientific transliteration Balgarija, officially the Republic of Bulgaria has played a significant role in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe for over fourteen centuries....
  • Varna Necropolis
    Varna Necropolis

    The Varna Necropolis is a burial site in the western industrial zone of Varna , Bulgaria, internationally considered one of the key archaeological sites in world prehistory....
  • Tuhovishta's Village Necropolis (Satovcha
    Satovcha

    Satovcha is a village in Southwestern Bulgaria. It is the administrative center of the Satovcha Municipality, Blagoevgrad Province....
    )

Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
  • Necropolis Cemetery - one of Toronto
    Toronto

    Toronto is the List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population in Canada and the Provinces and territories of Canada Provincial and territorial capitals of Canada of Ontario....
    's oldest cemeteries


People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China

The People's Republic of China , commonly known as China, is the largest country in East Asia and the List of countries by population in the world with over 1.3 billion people, approximately a fifth of the world's population....
  • Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
    Terracotta Army

    The Terracotta Army are the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shi Huang the First Emperor of China. The terracotta figures, dating from 210 BC, were discovered in 1974 by several local farmers near Xi'an, Shanxi province, China near the Mausouleum of the First Qin Emperor....
  • Ming Dynasty Tombs
    Ming Dynasty Tombs

    The Ming Tombs are located some 50 kilometers due north of urban Beijing at a specially selected site. The site was chosen by the third Ming Dynasty emperor Yongle Emperor of China , who moved the capital of China from Nanjing to the present location of northwest Beijing....
  • Fengdu
    Fengdu

    Fengdu County is a County of China of Chongqing municipality of China in China.There is a necropolis called Fengdu modelled after the Chinese Di Yu in Taoist mythology, built over 1800 years ago....


Croatia
Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a Central European country at the crossroads of Pannonian Plain, Balkans, and the Mediterranean Sea....
 
  • Stara Novalja
    Stara Novalja

    Stara Novalja is a village in the cove of the same name in the north-eastern part of the island of Pag , 5 kilometers north of Novalja in Croatia....


Cuba
Cuba

The Republic of Cuba is a country in the Caribbean. It consists of the island of Cuba , the island of Isla de la Juventud, and several adjacent small islands....
 

  • Colón Necrópolis (Havana
    Havana

    Havana is the capital city, major port, and leading commercial centre of Cuba. The city is one of the 14 Provinces of Cuba. The city/province has 2.1 million inhabitants, and the urban area over 3.5 million, making Havana the largest city in both Cuba and the Caribbean....
    )
  • Necropolis de San Carlos Borromeo
    Necropolis de San Carlos Borromeo

    Necropolis de San Carlos Borromeo aka Cementerio de San Carlos or San Carlos Cemetery is located in Matanzas, Cuba. It was inaugurated on September 2, 1872 on 13.5 hectacres....
     (Matanzas
    Matanzas

    Matanzas is the capital of the Cuban province of Matanzas Province. It is famed for its Afro-American religions.It is located on the northern shore of the island of Cuba, on the Bay of Matanzas , east of the capital Havana and west of the resort town of Varadero....
    )


Cyprus
Cyprus

Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is an island country situated in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, east of Greece, west of Lebanon, Syria, and Israel, south of Turkey and north of Egypt....
  • Amathus
    Amathus

    Amathus was one of the most ancient royal cities of Cyprus, on the southern coast in front of Agios Tychonas, about 24 miles west of Larnaca and 6 miles east of Limassol....
  • Tamassos
    Tamassos

    Tamassos is an ancient city-state of great archaeological significance in the central vicinity of Cyprus, located approximately 21 kilometeres south-west of the Capital city of Nicosia....


Denmark
Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....
  • Assistens Cemetery
    Assistens Cemetery

    The Assistens Cemetery is founded in 1757 and located in the N?rrebro section of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is sometimes called the N?rrebro Cemetery, and is a popular place for people to take a stroll, look at the old graves and monuments, and to have a picnic....


Egypt
Egypt

Egypt is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia. Covering an area of about , Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west....
  • Cairo
    Cairo

    Cairo , which means "the triumphant", is the Cairo and largest city of Egypt.It is the most populous metropolitan area in Egypt and is also one of the most populous in the world....
  • Great Pyramid of Giza
    Great Pyramid of Giza

    The Great Pyramid of Giza, also called Khufu's Pyramid or the Pyramid of Khufu, and Pyramid of Cheops, is the oldest and largest of the three Egyptian pyramidss in the Giza Necropolis bordering what is now Cairo , Egypt, and is the only remaining member of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World....
  • Memphis
    Memphis, Egypt

    Memphis was the ancient capital of the first Nome of Lower Egypt, and of the Old Kingdom of Egypt from its foundation until around 2200 BC and later for shorter periods during the New Kingdom, and an administrative centre throughout ancient history....
  • Saqqara
    Saqqara

    Saqqara or Sakkara, Saqqarah is a vast, ancient burial ground in Egypt, serving as the necropolis for the Ancient Egyptian capital, Memphis, Egypt....
  • Siwa Oasis
    Siwa Oasis

    The Siwa Oasis is an oasis in Egypt, located between the Qattara Depression and the Egyptian Sand Sea in the Libyan Desert, nearly 50 kilometre east of the Libyan border, and 560 km from Cairo....
  • Theban Necropolis
    Theban Necropolis

    The Theban Necropolis is an area of the west bank of the Nile, opposite Thebes, Egypt in Egypt. It was used for ritual burials for much of Ancient Egypt times, especially in the New Kingdom of Egypt....


France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
  • Alyscamps
    Alyscamps

    The Alyscamps is a large Ancient Rome necropolis, which is a short distance outside the walls of the old town of Arles, France. It was one of the most famous necropolises of the ancient world....
     (Arles
    Arles

    Arles is a city in the south of France, in the Bouches-du-Rh?ne Departments of France, of which it is a Subprefectures in France, in the former Provinces of France of Provence....
    )
  • The Panthéon (Paris
    Paris

    Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
    )
  • Père Lachaise Cemetery
    Père Lachaise Cemetery

    P?re Lachaise Cemetery is the largest cemetery in the city of Paris, France at , though there are larger cemeteries in the city's suburbs.P?re Lachaise is one of the List of cemeteries in the world....
     (Paris
    Paris

    Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
    )
  • Saint Denis Basilica
    Saint Denis Basilica

    The Basilica of Saint Denis is the List of cemeteries of almost all the List of French monarchs since Clovis I . Saved and restored by the architect Viollet le Duc, the basilica is located in Saint-Denis, now a northern suburb of Paris....
     (Saint-Denis
    Saint-Denis

    Saint-Denis is a commune in France in the northern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 9.4 kilometres from the Kilometre Zero. Saint-Denis is a sous-pr?fecture of the Seine-Saint-Denis d?partement in France, being the seat of the Arrondissement of Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis....
    )


Indonesia
Indonesia

The Republic of Indonesia , is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Comprising Islands of Indonesia, it is the world's largest Archipelago state....
  • Imogiri
    Imogiri

    Imogiri is a royal graveyard complex in Yogyakarta, in south-central Java , Indonesia, as well as a modern village located near the graveyard in Bantul regency....


Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
  • Beit She'arim
    Beit She'arim National Park

    Beit She'arim , also known as Beth She'arim, is the archeological site of a Jewish town and necropolis. The site is part of the Beit She'arim National Park, which borders the town of Kiryat Tiv'on on the northeast and is located close to the modern moshav of Beit She'arim....


Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
  • Cerveteri
    Cerveteri

    Cerveteri is a town and comune of the northern Lazio, in the province of Rome. Originally known as Caere, it is famous for a number of Etruscan civilization necropoleis that include some of the best Etruscan tombs anywhere....
  • Gaudo, Paestum
    Paestum

    Paestum is the classical Roman name of a major Graeco-Roman city in the Campania region of Italy. It is located in the north of Cilento, near the coast about 85 km SE of Naples in the province of Salerno, and belongs to the commune of Capaccio....
  • Lipari
    Lipari

    Lipari is the largest of the eight Aeolian Islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the north coast of Sicily, and the name of the island's main town....
     (Aeolian Islands
    Aeolian Islands

    The Aeolian Islands are a volcanic archipelago in the Tyrrhenian Sea north of Sicily. The locals residing on the islands are known as Eolian. They are a popular tourist destination in the summer, and attract up to 200,000 visitors annually....
    )
  • Locri
    Locri

    Locri is a town and comune in the province of Reggio Calabria, Calabria, southern Italy. The name derives from the ancient Greek "Locris" ....
  • Children's Necropolis of Lugnano in Teverina
    Lugnano in Teverina

    Lugnano in Teverina is a comune in the Province of Terni in the Italy region Umbria, located about 60 km south of Perugia and about 25 km west of Terni....
  • Norchia
    Norchia

    Norchia is an ancient Etruscan civilization city with an adjacent necropolis, near Vetralla in Italy. Some sources identify it with the ancient Etruscan town known as Orclae, whose name is reported in medieval sources....
  • Pantalica
  • Pezza Petrosa, Grottaglie
    Grottaglie

    Grottaglie is a town in the province of Taranto, Puglia, southern Italy....
  • Taranto
    Taranto

    Taranto is a coastal city in Puglia, Southern Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Taranto and is an important commercial port as well as the main Italian naval base....

Lebanon
Lebanon

Lebanon , officially the Republic of Lebanon or Lebanese Republic , is a country in Western Asia, on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea....
  • Tyre
    Tyre

    Tyre is a city in the South Governorate, Lebanon of Lebanon . There were approximately 117,000 inhabitants in 2003, however, the government of Lebanon has released only rough estimates of population numbers since 1932, so an accurate statistical accounting is not possible....

Malaysia
Malaysia

Malaysia is a federation that consists of States of Malaysia in Southeast Asia with a total landmass of . The capital city is Kuala Lumpur, while Putrajaya is the seat of the federal government....
  • Nirvana Memorial Park
    Nirvana Memorial Park

    Nirvana Memorial Park is a famous public memorial park in Semenyih, Selangor, Malaysia. The longest dragon statue in Malaysia is located here. It is 1,000 feet long and the inside has boxes for placement of the deads' ashes....

Malta
Malta

Malta , officially the Republic of Malta , is a densely populated developed country European microstates microstate in the European Union....
  • Hypogeum of Hal-Saflieni
    Hypogeum of Hal-Saflieni

    The Hypogeum in Hal-Saflieni, Paola, Malta, Malta, is a subterranean structure dating to the Saflieni phase in Maltese prehistory. Thought to be originally a sanctuary, it became a necropolis in prehistoric times....


Mexico
Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
  • Panteon de Belen
    Panteón de Belén

    Pante?n de Bel?n is a historical cemetery located in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Jalisco, Mexico. The cemetery is site of legends and night tours. It opened in 1848 and it was closed on 1896....
  • Panteón de Dolores
    Panteón de Dolores

    The Pante?n Civil de Dolores was inaugurated in 1875. With 2 million, 400 thousand square meters is the largest cemetery in Mexico and is located in the Miguel Hidalgo, D.F....
  • El Castillo
    El Castillo

    El Castillo may refer to:*El Castillo, Chichen Itza ? a familiar name for a pyramid structure *El Castillo ? a Maya archaeological site in the Cotzumalhuapa region of the Guatemalan highlands...
     & in Chichen Itza
    Chichen Itza

    Chichen Itza is a large pre-Columbian archaeological site built by the Maya civilization located in the northern center of the Yucat?n Peninsula, in the Yucat?n state, present-day Mexico....
  • Teotihuacan
    Teotihuacán

    Teotihuacan is an enormous archaeological site in the Basin of Mexico, containing some of the largest Mesoamerican pyramid built in the pre-Columbian Americas....


Morocco
Morocco

Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa with a population of nearly 34 million and an area just under 447,000 km2....
  • Chellah
    Chellah

    File:Chella Rabat Morocco roman street.jpgChellah, or Sala Colonia is a necropolis and complex of ancient and medieval ruins that lie on the outskirts of Rabat, Morocco?s Ville Nouvelle, or modern section....


Pakistan
Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia and borders Central Asia and the Middle East. It has a 1,046 kilometre coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south, and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and People's Republic of China in th...
  • Makli Hill
    Makli Hill

    One of the largest Necropolis in the world, with a diameter of approximately 8 kilometers, Makli Hill is supposed to be the burial place of some 125,000 Sufi saints....
     (Thatta
    Thatta

    Thatta or Thatto is an historic town of 22,000 inhabitants in the Sindh province of Pakistan, near Lake Keenjhar, the largest freshwater lake in the country....
    )
  • Chaukundi Near (Karachi
    Karachi

    is the largest city, seaport and the International financial centre of Pakistan. It is List of metropolitan areas by population in terms of metropolitan population, and is Pakistan's premier centre of banking, industry, and trade....
    )


Peru
Peru

Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
  • Paracas
    Paracas culture

    File:Paracas mantle.jpgThe Paracas culture was an important Andean society between approximately 750 BCE and 100 CE, with an extensive knowledge of irrigation and water management....


Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....

  • Powazki Cemetery
    Powazki Cemetery

    Powazki Cemetery /Military Cemetery is the oldest and most List of famous cemeteries in Warsaw, Poland, and is situated in the western part of the city....
  • Central Cemetery in Szczecin


Philippines
Philippines

The Philippines, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....
  • Manila North Cemetery
    Manila North Cemetery

    The Manila North Cemetery , which measures 54 hectares, is considered the biggest and one of the oldest cemeteries in Metro Manila. Beside it are two other important cemeteries, namely the La Loma Cemetery and the Manila Chinese Cemetery....
  • Manila Chinese Cemetery
    Manila Chinese Cemetery

    The Manila Chinese Cemetery is the second oldest cemetery in Manila after La Loma Cemetery and was designated as the resting place for the Chinese citizens who were denied burial in Catholic cemeteries during the Spanish colonial period....
  • La Loma Cemetery
    La Loma Cemetery

    The La Loma Catholic Cemetery was opened in 1884 and is found in the cities of Manila and Caloocan....


Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
  • Kremlin Wall Necropolis
    Kremlin Wall Necropolis

    The Kremlin Wall Necropolis is a part of the Kremlin Wall in Moscow overlooking the Red Square. Soviet governments buried many prominent local and international Communism figures here....


Serbia
Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a country in Central Europe and Balkans Europe, covering the southern part of the Pannonian Plain and the central part of the Balkans....
 
  • Karaburma
    Karaburma

    Karaburma is an List of Belgrade neighborhoods of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Palilula Belgrade....


Turkey
Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
  • Antalya
    Antalya

    Antalya is a city on the Mediterranean Sea coast of southwestern Turkey. It is the capital city of Antalya Province Provinces of Turkey. The population of the city was 775,157 in the 2007 census....
  • Aytap
    Aytap

    Aytap is a historical port city that is 30 km-33 km, east of Alanya, located in the Mediterranean Region, Turkey. Along with Alanya, Aytap is situated in the district of the Antalya Province....
  • Pamukkale
    Hierapolis

    Hierapolis was the ancient city on top of the famous Pamukkale hot springs located in south-western Turkey near Denizli.Hierapolis is a UNESCO World Heritage Site....


United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
  • Brookwood Cemetery
    Brookwood Cemetery

    Brookwood Cemetery is a burial ground in Brookwood, Surrey, England. It is the largest cemetery in the United Kingdom and one of the largest in western Europe....
  • London Necropolis railway station
    London Necropolis railway station

    The London Necropolis railway station was a special railway station constructed by the London Necropolis Company for funeral trains, specifically to serve their Brookwood Cemetery....
  • London Necropolis Company
    London Necropolis Company

    The London Necropolis Company, also London Necropolis & National Mausoleum Company, was set up in 1850, and established by Act of Parliament in 1852....
  • Glasgow Necropolis
    Glasgow Necropolis

    The Glasgow Necropolis is a Victorian era cemetery in Glasgow, Scotland. It is on a hill above, and to the east of, St. Mungo's Cathedral, Glasgow ....


United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
  • Colma, California
    Colma, California

    Colma is a small incorporated town in San Mateo County, California, at the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area....
  • Arlington National Cemetery
    Arlington National Cemetery

    Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Virginia is a United States National Cemetery in the United States of America, established during the American Civil War on the grounds of Arlington House, The Robert E....
    , Washington DC.


Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan , is a Landlocked_country#Doubly_landlocked_country country in Central Asia, formerly part of the Soviet Union....
  • Bahoutdin Architectural Complex
    Bahoutdin Architectural Complex

    Sheikh Bohoutdin was a clerical member of the Nakshbandiy order, and was considered the spiritual patron of Bukhara governors; he died in 1389. That is why his necropolis, which was subsequently erected at his tomb, always was and remains the most esteemed in Uzbekistan and, and its fame has reached other Islamic countries....


Vatican City
Vatican City

Vatican City , officially the State of the Vatican City , is a Landlocked country sovereignty city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome, the Capital of Italy....
  • Vatican Necropolis


See also

  • Cemetery
    Cemetery

    A cemetery is a place in which death body and cremation are burial. The term cemetery implies that the land is specifically designated as a burying ground....
  • Grave field
    Grave field

    A grave field is a prehistoric cemetery, typically of Bronze Age Europe and Iron Age Europe.Grave fields are distinguished from necropolis by the former's lack of above-ground structures, buildings, or grave markers....
  • Catacombs
    Catacombs

    Catacombs are ancient, human-made underground passageways or subterranean cemeteries composed thereof. Many are under cities and have served during historic times as a refuge for safety during wars or as a meeting place for cults....
  • Crypt
    Crypt

    In terms of European architecture, a crypt is a stone chamber or vault beneath the floor of a church usually used as a chapel or burial vault possibly containing sarcophagus, coffins or relics....
  • Mausoleum
    Mausoleum

    A mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the interment space or burial chamber of a deceased person or persons....