Burial monuments and structures

thumb|upright|A grave inside Panteón Español, a 19th century cemetery in Mexico City A grave is a location where a dead body (typically that of a human, although sometimes that of an animal) is buried or interred after a funeral. Graves are usually located in special areas set aside for the purpose of burial, such as graveyards or cemeteries.

thumb|Model of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (near modern-day [[Bodrum in Turkey), the grave of King Mausolus, the Persian satrap of Caria from which the word mausoleum was derived.]] thumb|The Taj Mahal in [[Agra, India, a UNESCO World Heritage Site]] thumb|Anıtkabir is the mausoleum of Atatürk, leader of the [[Turkish National Movement during the Turkish War of Independence, the founder and first President of the Republic of Turkey. It attracts around 3.5 million tourists yearly.]] thumb|The Thalmayer mausoleum, one of the many destroyed mausoleums (Hungary, [[Budapest, Fiume Road Grav

thumb|Poulnabrone dolmen, [[the Burren, County Clare, Ireland]] thumb|Dolmens in Amudalavalasa|Amadalavalasa, [[Andhra Pradesh, India]]

thumb|Dolmen at [[Ganghwa Island, South Korea (c. 300 BC)]] thumb|Megalithic Batu Brak, Lampung Province, Indonesia (c. 2100 BC) thumb|Megalithic grave Harhoog in [[Keitum, Sylt, Germany (c. 3000 BC)]]

Ancient Egyptian sarcophagus lid.|right|thumb right|thumb|upright=1.3|Roman Empire|Roman sarcophagus with the myth of [[Medea, , from Rome, exhibited in the Antikensammlung Berlin (Berlin)]] right|thumb|upright=1.3|Roman sarcophagus with Apollo, [[Minerva and the Muses, , from Via Appia, exhibited in the Antikensammlung Berlin]] thumb|upright=1.3|The Gothic art|Gothic sarcophagi of Don Àlvar Rodrigo de Cabrera, count of [[Urgell and his wife Cecília of Foix, , made of limestone, traces of paint, exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City)]]

thumb|Visigoths|Visigothic crypt of Saint Antoninus [[Palencia Cathedral in Spain]] thumb|A crypt in Wola Gułowska in [[Lublin Province, Poland]] A crypt () is a stone chamber beneath the floor of a church, above ground within a cemetery’s mausoleum or a free-standing outdoor memorial tomb. It typically contains coffins, sarcophagi, or religious relics and sometimes cremation urns.

right|thumb|Example of a mastaba, the Mastabat al-Fir'aun of [[Shepseskaf]] A mastaba ( , or ), also mastabah or mastabat) is a type of ancient Egyptian tomb in the form of a flat-roofed, rectangular structure with inward sloping sides, constructed out of mudbricks or limestone. These edifices marked the burial sites of many eminent Egyptians during Egypt's Early Dynastic Period and Old Kingdom. Non-royal use of mastabas continued for over a thousand years.

thumb|The Tomb of I'timād-ud-Daulah in [[Agra, India]]

thumb|upright=1|Captain Andrew Drake (1684–1743) sandstone gravestone from the Stelton Baptist Church, Edison|Stelton Baptist Church in [[Edison, New Jersey]] A gravestone or tombstone is a marker, usually stone, that is placed over a grave. A marker set at the head of the grave may be called a headstone. An especially old or elaborate stone slab may be called a funeral stele, stela, or slab. The use of such markers is traditional for Chinese, Jewish, Christian, and Islamic burials, as well as other traditions. In East Asia, the tomb's spirit tablet is the focus for ancestral veneration and ma

thumb|upright=1.2|A cairn a mile east of Nine Standards Rigg in the Yorkshire Dales.

thumb|300px|The San Francisco Columbarium & Funeral Home|San Francisco Columbarium A columbarium (; pl. columbaria), also called a cinerarium, is a structure for the reverential and usually public storage of funerary urns holding cremated remains of the dead. The term comes from the Latin columba (dove) and originally solely referred to compartmentalized housing for doves and pigeons, also called dovecotes.

An ossuary is a chest, box, building, well, or site made to serve as the final resting place of human skeletal remains. They are frequently used where burial space is scarce. A body is first buried in a temporary grave, then after some years the skeletal remains are removed and placed in an ossuary ("os" is "bone" in Latin). The greatly reduced space taken up by an ossuary means that it is possible to store the remains of many more people in a single tomb than possible in coffins. The practice is sometimes known as grave recycling.

underground burial sites in Rome, Italy

burial structure

type of chamber tomb found in Sardinia, Italy

type of neolithic tomb made of large stones

type of megalithic monument

thumb|right|The northwest heroön at Sagalassos, Turkey

thumb|Kistvaen on the southern edge of [[Dartmoor in Drizzlecombe (England) showing the capstone and the inner cist structure]] thumb|Cist

ancient Greek mausoleum in Muses hill in Athens

Pair of human skeletons found near Mantua, Italy, in 2007

venerated structure in traditional Islam

Botanical garden located on Mount Scopus

grave art

{|style="float:right;" |valign="top"|thumb|150px|A 4th-century arcosolium in the hypogeum of Via Dino Compagni ([[Via Latina Catacomb), Rome. The figure of the frescoes is the goddess Tellus, after whom this tomb is named.]] |valign="top"|thumb|150px|The 15th-century arcosolium of the doncel Martín Vázquez de Arce, in the [[Sigüenza Cathedral, Spain. Like most post-Roman era arcosolia, it is aboveground.]] |} An arcosolium, plural arcosolia, is an arched recess used as a place of entombment. The word is from Latin , "arch", and , "throne" (literally "place of state") or post-classical "sarcoph

ancient Macedonian tomb in Amfipoli, Macedonia, Greece

Telephone booth in Ōtsuchi, Japan

architectural pattern in Ancient Egypt

supposed burial place of Aaron, the brother of Moses

monument in the Golan Heights

thumb|An Ubud cremation ceremony in 2005

thumb|right|This is a naveta from the site of Naveta des Tudons found on the western end of Menorca 250px|right|thumb|Naveta des Tudons at dawn, Menorca A naveta (also known as funerary naveta or burial naveta) is a form of megalithic chamber tomb unique to the Balearic island of Menorca. They were built during the Bronze Age, between the Pre-Talayotic period and the beginning of the Talayotic period. Despite their resemblance to residential navetas, they served a very different function and do not share an entirely synchronous chronology.

structural underground tomb

Type of burial

effigy tombs or slabs depicting decomposition

graves at Oude Kerkhof in Roermond, Netherlands

statue on top of a tomb, depicting the occupant

communal burial places, cut into rock or hillslopes or constructed of masonry, whose chamber may or may not have an entry passage, usually covered by a mound

thumb|A shmashana outside an Indian village A shmashana () is a Hindu crematory ground, where dead bodies are brought to be burnt on a pyre. It is usually located near a river or body of water on the outskirts of a village or town; as they are usually located near river ghats, they are also regionally called smashan ghats.

Anegundi, previously called Kishkindha, is a village in Gangavathi, Koppal district, in the Indian state of Karnataka. It is older than Hampi, situated on the northern bank of the Tungabhadra River. Nimvapuram, a nearby village, has a mount of ash believed to be the cremated remains of the king Vali.

archaeological discovery

underground complex of 63 rock-cut tombs in Jerusalem

catacomb in Rome, Italy

architectural structure

Catacombs in Naples

cultural property in Ciutadella, Spain

Khirigsuur (kheregsüür, khirgisuur, kereksur, khereksur) is a type of Bronze Age burial, encountered in the Mongolic-speaking regions such as the Republic of Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, Buryatia and Tuva. It is composed of a central stone mound with a stone burial chamber generally beneath it, a stone enclosure, and external mounds and circles on the periphery. The etymology of the word is uncertain, though some groups of Mongols connect it with the Kyrgyz people.

deliberately damaging a grave with intent to dishonor the dead person

tomb of a Muslim holy person

vault or building where human skeletal remains are stored

historic site, with museum, in the Parish of Grouville, Jersey

sculpture by Giulio Monteverde

Georgian inscription

tree or simple structure used for supporting corpses

marker on a street that commemorates a site where a person died

cemetery

right|thumb| Greby grave field in March 2007 The Greby grave field (Swedish: Greby gravfält) is an Iron Age grave field in western Sweden. It is located north of Grebbestad, Tanum Municipality in Västra Götaland County. With its 220 graves, it is the largest site of this kind in Bohuslän.

Meherabad is a universal spiritual retreat in Arangaon village about , south of Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, India. It is home to Indian Spiritual Master Meher Baba's Samadhi Mandir. Meherabad was originally established as an ashram by Meher Baba in 1923.

type of chamber tomb found in western and northern Ireland, and southwest Scotland

burial niche