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columbaria

noun

plural of columbarium

as in crypts

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At Penzing Studios, the open-air museum at Bad Windsheim, the fortress at Lichtenau, and sites in Nuremberg, the production found medieval stonework, corridors, chapels, crypts, and staircases suited to the royal court.

— JP Mangalindan, Time, 11 Sep. 2026
One captures a white concrete community mausoleum, its crypts often empty, like absent teeth cavities, its coffins stolen presumably for anything valuable inside.

— John Hopewell, Variety, 6 Mar. 2026

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Near present-day Trujillo, Chan Chan was the biggest city of the Americas in its prime, complete with gardens, plazas, pyramids, and mausoleums spread across nine square miles.

— Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 11 Sep. 2026
Stroll through the grounds for free and admire the intricate headstones and mausoleums.

— Krista Simmons, Travel + Leisure, 6 June 2026

Definition of mausoleums

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But passing motorists largely knew nothing of the collection of handmade replica of catacombs, Biblical scenes and Israelite villages beneath it.

— Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 16 Aug. 2026
Avedon, whose work and career had a big influence on Hujar early on, had produced a series of images of the Palermo catacombs in 1959.

— Hilton Als, New Yorker, 17 July 2026

Definition of catacombs

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Swift’s propensity for clearing her musical vaults answers to a more-is-better audience ethos.

— Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2026
Sudan’s civil war turned its national museum into a battlefield and crime scene, with ancient statues shattered, skeletal remains scorched and vaults of gold looted.

— Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of vaults

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Back then, the town was a rural, rapidly industrializing fringe of Hangzhou with a largely undeveloped archaeological site that featured Neolithic tombs and settlements buried deep beneath farmland.

— Afra Wang, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2026
Their findings suggest that these tombs were intended not simply to house the dead but to affect the living through an immersive environment.

— Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of tombs

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If the team is playing a team that’s in the sod cemetery, flowers in that team’s colors mark the graves.

— Elliott Harrell, Southern Living, 19 Sep. 2026
During the Qingming Festival, observed each year in April, families visit ancestral graves with food offerings and burn incense and paper replicas of everyday goods for their ancestors.

— ABC News, ABC News, 17 Sep. 2026

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