graverobber
Steals from crypts
A graverobber is someone who digs up corpses from graves, historically to sell bodies to medical schools for dissection or to steal valuables buried with the dead.
The term extends to anyone who profits from the dead or their legacy: These estate lawyers are just graverobbers in suits.
Also spelled as two words.
Historical corpse procurer
- Burke and HareVictorian-era serial killers
- anatomyStudy of organism structure
- dissectionAnatomical cutting and examination
- medical schoolPhysician training institution
surgeon · bodysnatchers · Victorian · Edinburgh · gallows · medical students · specimens · teaching hospital
Stealing corpses from graves
- desecrationViolating something sacred
- theftUnlawful taking of property
- exhumationRecovering buried remains
- nightworkWork done after dark
accomplice · lookout · shovel · lantern · coffin · shroud · valuables · rings
- adventureRisky exciting undertaking
- dungeonSubterranean prison chamber
- cryptSubterranean burial vault
- undeadDeceased yet animate
Lara Croft · skeleton · trap · treasure hunter · RPG · video game · quest · loot
Human-made historical object
- antiquitiesHistorical objects from ages past
- smugglingIllegal covert transport
- lootingTheft during disorder
- excavationAct of unearthing
mummy · sarcophagus · pharaoh · treasure · Howard Carter · Tutankhamun · curse · Egyptian
resurrectionist
Historical corpse procurer
- Burke and HareVictorian-era serial killers
- anatomyStudy of organism structure
- dissectionAnatomical cutting and examination
medical school · surgeon · bodysnatchers · Victorian · Edinburgh · gallows · medical students · specimens · teaching hospital · anatomist
bodysnatching
Stealing corpses from graves
- desecrationViolating something sacred
- theftUnlawful taking of property
- exhumationRecovering buried remains
nightwork · accomplice · lookout · shovel · lantern · coffin · shroud · valuables · rings · jewelry
Indiana Jones
Lara Croft · undead · skeleton · trap · treasure hunter · RPG · video game · quest · loot · haunted
artifact
Human-made historical object
- antiquitiesHistorical objects from ages past
- smugglingIllegal covert transport
- lootingTheft during disorder
excavation · mummy · sarcophagus · pharaoh · treasure · Howard Carter · Tutankhamun · curse · Egyptian · provenance
graverobbermourner
One who grieves
cemetery caretaker · tomb guardian · gravedigger · undertaker · mortician
graverobbercoroner
Public death investigator
medical examiner · forensic anthropologist · archaeologist · sexton · anatomist