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The grave it's a kind of edification made of stone or excavated in the same land, relatively small, and which is destined to house the deceased after their death and after the wake.

Stone construction or product of the excavation of the earth in which a person is buried after death

It can be built entirely underground, as in cemeteries, that is, the earth is raised generating a well of certain dimensions and the resulting hole will house the drawer with the remains of the passed away.

It is worth noting that the drawer in which the deceased is housed is called a coffin.

Although, they can also be found tombs inside a church or at the behest of its crypt.

It should be noted that the crypt It is a type of underground building specially designed for the burial of deceased persons.

Its use was extremely frequent in ancient times, which is why many churches were elevated from the ground level in order to be able to build a crypt under them in which to house the Deceased.

Built in cemeteries, cathedrals, churches, private estates

Typically, the crypts are arranged in the apse, although they can also be found under the wings or aisles.

But while churches have been the most common places in which crypts were built, they are also plausible to find in cemeteries, cathedrals, or private estates, especially those owned by wealthy families, and then each time a member of the family he dies is buried in the crypt or family vault.

We must emphasize that it is not just yesterday's practice but that it is still very much in force today in some families and with church members.

In the case of individual graves, once the remains are interred, the masses are sealed, while the family crypts, mentioned above, usually have a door to access them every time it turns out to be necessary.

Cemeteries, the physical place to which the deceased are taken, is also the place in which graves are grouped.

The tombstone, a resource to give identity to each grave

To identify each grave and also to facilitate its location within cemeteries, they are usually accompanied by a stone, a rectangular flat stone to which an inscription is engraved containing the data of the deceased: name, year of birth and death, some symbol of their creed and in some cases they even usually show dedications of relatives, religious or allegorical quotes (epitaphs).

History of the use of this type of construction

The practice of burying the deceased dates back to the initiation times of humanity, in the early days they were used rocks directly to cover the deceased and thus cover the extension of the corpse, then the digging technique began to be used in the earth, the dead man was housed in the hole and stones or earth were thrown over him to cover him, while then the coffin that is a box of wood that is specially designed and destined to place the deceased, to transfer him to his wake where friends and Family members will fire him to an open or closed drawer, and finally he is transferred to the grave to be buried.

The purpose of this action mixed religious purposes but also the preservation of hygiene.

If we advance a little beyond the beginnings of humanity we find the fantastic and very advanced civilization Egyptian that used monumental and emblematic constructions to bury the deceased pharaohs.

The pharaohs were the ultimate authority of the empire and they were also the referents of religion, for example, they enjoyed the greatest honors in life and after their death.

The uses and traditions They indicated that these were buried in tombs in the aforementioned pyramids and accompanied by very valuable belongings, such as jewels, among other elements.

Reserved people who know how to keep secrets

On the other hand, we must say that this concept has a widespread use in the language colloquial to refer to those people who know how to keep silence or a secret in the face of certain circumstances that require it, that is, they demand privacy.

This has to do with the direct association that is made regarding the places where the tombs are housed, cemeteries and churches, mostly, as silent spaces, because tranquility and silence are precisely requested in them, for I respect to the people who rest there.

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