"Exhumation" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... moved deeper anger than their constant exhumation of our dead, and murder, for robbery's sake, of the wounded or isolated. Major Harley, A.P.M. of Baghdad in later days, learnt to admire the ability of the Arabs, whose brief Golden Age, when Abbasids ...
— The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad • Edward John Thompson
... the value of these archaeological discoveries, detailed a man to superintend the exhumation, who proceeded to remove the earth from the mould, which he reached through a layer of charcoal, and then with a trowel excavated beneath it. The clay was not thoroughly baked, and no impression of the corpse was left, except of ...
— An introduction to the mortuary customs of the North American Indians • H. C. Yarrow |
