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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

In Britain, the burials were at times by inhumation only, and occasionally a great number of bodies were interred in the same barrow: at others, cremation had preceded burial.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various

Lycurgus was perhaps the only Grecian legislator who recommended inhumation in temples and in cities, to accustom youth to the daily spectacle of death.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

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

He identified the change from 57cremation to inhumation with that from heathenism to Christianity.

From Anglo-Saxon Literature by Earle, John