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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 1063 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TOMB (Gr. Tuµ/3a, Tuµ(3os, probably allied to
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Lat.
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tumulus, literally a swelling, tumere, to swell)  , a
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general
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term for a
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place of
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burial for the dead, including the excavation or cavity in which the
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body is laid and the superstructure which marks the place . (See BURIAL and FUNERAL
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RITES.) The various forms which the
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tomb has taken throughout the ages are treated under such heads as
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BARROW;
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CAIRN;
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TUMULUS;
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CENOTAPH;
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SARCOPHAGUS; &C .

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