Ossuary
An ossuary is a chest, building, well, or site made to serve as the final resting place of human skeletal remains.
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios | Nea Moni | |
| Evora | ||
| Funerary and memory sites of the First World War | "The remains of unidentified soldiers are sometimes grouped together in ossuaries." (crit iii) | |
| Gusuku of Ryukyu | Tamaudun, royal tomb, according to Ryukyuan tradition, the royal remains would only be kept in central compartment for a limited time, after which the bones were washed and entombed in the north and south compartments - so technically it is also an ossuary. | |
| Hallstatt-Dachstein | ||
| Lima | Monastery of San Francisco | |
| Meteora | At Great Meteoron Monastery | |
| Mount Athos | In the Prodomos | |
| Naples | Cimitero delle Fontanelle | |
| Necropolis of Bet She'arim | "There's plenty of light and height in most of the areas, and temperatures inside are comfortable, making it easy to spend a few hours gazing at the sheer variety of impressive ossuaries, tunnels, inscriptions and symbolic decorations." | |
| Oporto | Igreja de Sao Francisco | |
| Rome | Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini | |
| Saint Catherine Area | Chapel of St Tryphon | |
| Saint-Emilion | ||
| Salvador de Bahia | The Dominican and Franciscan churches have subterranean ossuaries | |
| Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor | Ceramic chest found at Burana | |
| Syracuse | Under the church of San Filippo Apostolo there is a crypt with an ossuary. | |
| Venice and its Lagoon | Isola Sant'Ariano |
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