Thesaurus results for NECROPOLIS

necropolis

noun

nə-ˈkrä-pə-ləs

as in cemetery

a piece of land used for burying the dead an ancient necropolis that has given archaeologists valuable insights into how people once lived and died

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Recent Examples of necropolis The temple of King Nyuserre is believed to be from the Fifth Dynasty and the remains were found in the Abusir necropolis south of the Egyptian capital. —

CBS News, 15 Dec. 2025 There were just two dogs roaming the necropolis all that while, unseen and unheard. —

Joy Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025 Surrounded by lovely countryside and located near the coast, Paestum also features the National Archaeological Museum, which houses funerary items, pots, etc found in the town, in the nearby necropolises and at the sanctuary dedicated to Hera. —

Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 18 July 2025 In the 1920s, archaeologists excavating the necropolis of Deir el-Bahri near Luxor, Egypt, found many broken statues of the ancient Egyptian queen Hatshepsut—one of the civilization’s few female pharaohs. —

Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for necropolis

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Minab has been transformed into a landscape of collective grief, where the rhythm of daily life now includes frequent visits to the cemetery, where small graves are arranged in neat rows, just steps apart, mimicking the order of a school assembly.

— Zohreh Saberi, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2026
Sources in Collingdale Borough government said the cemetery has been inundated for years.

— Joe Holden, CBS News, 5 May 2026