Cremation

Connected Sites: 10

Definition
Sites associated with the the cremation of human bodies.

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Connected Sites

  • Auschwitz Birkenau
    Inscribed: 1979
    4.07
    349
    14
    Crematoria for murdered Concentration Camp victims
  • Skogskyrkogarden
    Inscribed: 1994
    2.46
    180
    12
    Crematorium
  • Kathmandu Valley
    Inscribed: 1979
    3.82
    163
    10
    Pashputinath Ghats. Active Hindu cremation site
  • Etruscan Necropolises
    Inscribed: 2004
    3.47
    173
    9

    Cerveteri: "The earliest known [tombs] are series of rock cut trenches holding pottery ossuaries containing ashes of the deceased." (AB Ev) – Cerveteri: "The most ancient burials can be recognized close to Tumulus III, as a series of small trenches excavated in the tufa rock. They contained impasto pottery ossuaries which held the ashes of the deceased." (Nomination file, p. 9) – "The most ancient areas (9th to 8th century B.C.) [of the Cerveteri necropolis] (...) include (...) well-shaped tombs for the burial of cremated remains in urns". (Nomination file, p. 20)
  • Ayutthaya
    Ayutthaya
    Thailand
    Inscribed: 1991
    3.61
    295
    15
    Ayutthaya's Rajburana Temple was the cremation ground site for King Boromraja's brothers
  • Willandra Lakes
    Inscribed: 1981
    3.20
    31
    4
    Site of earliest discovered remains of a human cremation - "Mungo Lady" at Mungo Lake c26-20 000 years ago
  • Tchogha Zanbil
    Inscribed: 1979
    3.39
    32
    4
    "A building on the grounds contains five vaulted underground tombs, within four of which are cremated remains, and there is one uncremated corpse. The Elamites traditionally buried their dead, and the reason for the cremation is unknown."
    See www.britannica.com
  • Luang Prabang
    Inscribed: 1995
    3.65
    193
    5
    Luang Prabang's royal cremation chariot is kept in Wat Xiang Thonh
  • Hedeby and Danevirke
    Inscribed: 2018
    2.23
    133
    6
    About 6% of the people in the grave fields were cremated (nom file)
  • Fray Bentos
    Inscribed: 2015
    2.79
    36
    5
    cremation of animal remains at the factory