ancestral tombs
Hereditary burial chambers
Ancestral tombs are burial sites holding the remains of a family's forebears across generations.
The phrase evokes continuity between the living and the dead—reverence, obligation, and inheritance bound up in stone and earth.
Ancestral tombs appear in religious traditions, fantasy settings, and discussions of heritage: The family visited the ancestral tombs each spring.
Disturbing the ancestral tombs brought a curse upon the village.
- mausoleumMonumental building for interment
- family vaultBurial chamber for relatives
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- ancient civilizationsSocieties of the distant past
- afterlifeExistence beyond mortality
ossuary · crypt · resting place · eternal rest · excavation · lineage · blood ties · dynasties · family legacy · necropolis · sepulcher · sacred ground · restoration · grave goods · stone carvings · sarcophagus · burial customs · tradition
- genealogyfamily trees, family history, descendants, pedigrees, lineages
ancestral tombsmaternity wards
Hospital areas for childbirth
nurseries · cradles · birthing centers · delivery rooms · birthplaces
ancestral tombscremation urns
Containers for burned remains
cremation · sky burial · potter's fields · sea burial · mass graves
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