Necropolis 

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View of the Etruscan necropolis of Banditaccia, in Cerveteri, Italy.
Necropolis - athlete tomb (Taranto), Italy.
Nepasa necropolis in Algeria.
Roknia necropolis in Algeria.
Radimlja necropolis of stećak in Stolac, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Necropolis de San Carlos Borromeo in August 2007, in Cuba.
Facade of an unfinished five-star hotel overlooking Fengdu, People's Republic of China.
Chaukundi necropolis near Karachi, Pakistan.

A necropolis (plural: necropoleis or necropoles) is a large cemetery or burial place (from Greek 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 is a term for prehistoric burial grounds that do not include any above-ground structures or markers. These include row graves, urnfields, tumuli, etc.

Contents

List of necropoleis

Algeria

Austria

Australia

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bulgaria

Canada

People's Republic of China

Croatia

Cuba

Cyprus

Egypt

France

Indonesia

Israel

Italy

Malaysia

Malta


Mexico

Morocco

Pakistan

Peru

Poland

Philippines

Russia

Serbia

Turkey

United Kingdom

United States

Vatican City

See also

References

Footnotes

  1. ^ Ivanov, Ivan, M. Avramova. Varna Necropolis (Sofia, 2000)
  2. ^ Saqqara: City of the Dead
  3. ^ C. Michael Hogan, Chellah, The Megalithic Portal, ed. Andy Burnham, 2007
  4. ^ "The Vatican Necropolis - Scavi". Retrieved on 2007-10-02.