Historical Tomb (Ballabhgarh)

JAY SHARMA 30 months ago

A tomb (Greek: τύμβος tumbos[1]) is a repository for the remains of the dead. It is generally any structurally enclosed interment space or burial chamber, of varying sizes. Placing a corpse into a tomb can be called immurement, and is a method of final disposition, as an alternative to cremation or burial.
The word is used in a broad sense to encompass a number of such types of places of interment or, occasionally, burial, including:

Architectural shrines – in Christianity, an architectural shrine above a saint's first place of burial, as opposed to a similar shrine on which stands a reliquary or feretory into which the saint's remains have been transferred
Burial vault – a stone or brick-lined underground space for multiple burials, originally vaulted, often privately owned for specific family groups; usually beneath a religious building such as a church or in a churchyard or cemetery
Church monument – within a church (or a tomb-style chest in a churchyard) may be a place of interment, but this is unusual; it may more commonly stand over the grave or burial vault rather than containing the actual body and therefore is not a tomb.
Crypts – often, though not always, for interment; similar to burial vaults but usually for more general public interment
Hypogeum tomb – stone-built underground structure for interment, such as the tombs of ancient Egypt