Necropolis

A necropolis is a cemetery or burying-place, literally a "city of the dead". Apart from the occasional application of the word to modern cemeteries outside large towns, the term is chiefly used of burial grounds near the sites of the centers of ancient civilizations.

See also

• Death related
  • Cemetery
  • Catacombs

• Places
  • Great Pyramid of Giza
  • Memphis, Egypt
  • Cairo, Egypt
  • Saqqara, Egypt
  • Lipari (Aeolian Islands)
  • Locri (Ionian Sea)
  • Amathus, Cyprus
  • Ugarit (northern Syria)
  • Rookwood Cemetery
  • The Panthéon (Paris, France)

• Other
  • List of ley lines

This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.