exhumers
Body recovery specialists
Exhumers are people who dig up buried bodies.
The term applies to forensic investigators, archaeologists, or cemetery workers who legally unearth remains for reburial, identification, or study.
It can also describe grave robbers: The exhumers worked through the night to move the coffins before construction began.
Excavating a grave
- permitsGrants formal authorization
- court ordersBinding judicial directives
- next of kinNearest living family members
- regulationsEnforced rules and standards
documentation · consent · caskets · groundskeepers · gravediggers · morticians · funeral directors · probate
Death cause determiners
- investigatorsThose who examine facts
- remainsContinues in place
- autopsyMedical examination after death
- identificationEstablishing who someone is
evidence · bones · skeletal · morgue · DNA · cold cases · victims · repatriation
Scientists studying past cultures
- excavatorsMachines for digging earth
- tombsChambers for the dead
- mummiesPreserved wrapped bodies
- burial sitesPlaces for interring remains
artifacts · sarcophagi · graves · relics · ancient remains · preservation · dating · pharaohs
Those who restore traditions
- researchersThose who study systematically
- historiansScholars of the past
- archivistsKeepers of historical documents
- rediscoverersThose finding something again
secrets · scandals · revelations · exposers · forgotten · past · memories · manuscripts
disinterment
Excavating a grave
- permitsGrants formal authorization
- court ordersBinding judicial directives
- next of kinNearest living family members
regulations · documentation · consent · caskets · groundskeepers · gravediggers · morticians · funeral directors · probate · inheritance disputes
coroners
Death cause determiners
- investigatorsThose who examine facts
- remainsContinues in place
- autopsyMedical examination after death
identification · evidence · bones · skeletal · morgue · DNA · cold cases · victims · repatriation · pathologists
archaeologists
Scientists studying past cultures
- excavatorsMachines for digging earth
- tombsChambers for the dead
- mummiesPreserved wrapped bodies
burial sites · artifacts · sarcophagi · graves · relics · ancient remains · preservation · dating · pharaohs · catacombs
revivalists
Those who restore traditions
- researchersThose who study systematically
- historiansScholars of the past
- archivistsKeepers of historical documents
rediscoverers · secrets · scandals · revelations · exposers · forgotten · past · memories · manuscripts · lost works
exhumersgravediggers
Those who excavate burial plots
undertakers · sepulchers · morticians · funeral directors · pallbearers