For the New York prison see The Tombs. " The Tombs " is the colloquial name for the Manhattan Detention Complex a Jail in Lower Manhattan at 125 White Street as well as the popular name

A type of tomb: a mausoleum in Le Père Lachaise cemetery. Père Lachaise Cemetery (Cimetière du Père-Lachaise officially cimetière de l'Est, "East Cemetery" is the largest Cemetery in the city of Paris

A Tomb is a repository for the remains of the dead. Death is the termination of the biological functions that define living Organisms It refers both to a specific The term generally refers to any structurally enclosed interment space or burial chamber, of varying sizes. The word is used in a broad sense to encompass a number of such types of places of interment or, occasionally, burial, including:

• Burial vaults – stone or brick-lined underground spaces for interment (rather than burial), originally vaulted, often privately owned for specific family groups; usually beneath a religious building such as a church or in a churchyard or cemetery
• Monuments – within a church (or tomb-style chests in a churchyard) may be places of interment, but this is unusual; they more commonly stand over the grave or burial vault rather than containing the actual body and are therefore not tombs
• Crypts – often, though not always, for interment; similar to burial vaults but usually for more general public interment
• Martyrium - final resting place for the remains of a martyr or saint, such as San Pietro in Montorio
• Mausolea (including ancient pyramids in some countries) – external free-standing structures, above ground, acting as both monument and place of interment, usually for individuals or family groups
• Megalithic tombs (including Chamber tombs) – prehistoric places of interment, often for large communities, constructed of large stones and originally covered with an earthen mound
• Sarcophagi – stone containers for bodies or coffins, often decorated and perhaps part of a monument; these may stand within religious buildings or greater tombs or mausolea
• Sepulchres – cavernous, rock-cut or stone-built (often underground) spaces for interment, such as the tombs of ancient Egypt; however, it is generally used to refer to similar Jewish or Christian structures. A grave is a place where a dead body (usually a human although sometimes an animal is buried For a protective coffin enclosure see Burial vault (enclosure. A Vault (French voute Italian volta German Gewölbe Polish sklepienie, Spanish A churchyard is a patch of land adjoining or surrounding a church which is usually owned by the relevant church or local Parish itself A cemetery is a place in which dead bodies and cremated remains are buried. A monument is a structure either explicitly created to commemorate a person or important event or which has become important to a social group as a part of their remembrance of past A grave is a place where a dead body (usually a human although sometimes an animal is buried In terms of European architecture a crypt (from the Latin crypta and the Greek κρυπτη, kryptē) is a stone chamber or San Pietro in Montorio is a church in Rome, which includes in its courtyard The Tempietto (a small commemorative martyrium) built by Donato Bramante A mausoleum ( plural: mausolea is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the interment space or burial chamber of a deceased person or persons A pyramid is a Building where the upper surfaces are triangular and converge on one point A chamber tomb is a Tomb for Burial used in many different Cultures In the case of individual burials the chamber is thought to signify a higher status A sarcophagus is a Funeral receptacle for a Corpse, most commonly carved or cut from stone A coffin (also known as a casket in North American English) is a funerary Box used in the display and containment of deceased remains – either for A sepulchre, or sepulcher, is a type of Tomb or Burial chamber PLEASE TAKE NOTE************
• 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
• Other forms of archaeological 'tombs' such as ship burials

As indicated, tombs are generally located in or under religious buildings, such as churches, or in cemeteries or churchyards. A shrine, from the Latin scrinium (‘box’ also used as a desk like the French bureau) was originally a container usually made of precious materials used Christianity ( Greek Χριστιανισμός from the word Xριστός ( Christ)is a monotheistic Religion centered on the life and teachings A saint (from the Latin sanctus) is a human being to whom has been attributed (and who has generally demonstrated a high level of Holiness and Sanctity A grave is a place where a dead body (usually a human although sometimes an animal is buried A reliquary (also referred to as a Shrine or by the French term Chasse) is a container for Relics These may be the physical This page is a glossary of architecture. A Aisle - subsidiary space alongside the body of a building separated from it by columns piers or A ship burial or boat grave is a Burial in which a Ship or Boat is used either as a container for the dead and the grave goods or as a part However, they may also be found in catacombs, on private land or, in the case of early or pre-historic tombs, in what is today open landscape. The first Burial galleries to be referred to as catacombs lie beneath San Sebastiano fuori le mura, in Rome.

The tomb of Emperor Nintoku (the 16th emperor of Japan) is the largest in the world by area. was the 16th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. However, the Pyramid of Khufu in Egypt is the largest by volume. A pyramid is a Building where the upper surfaces are triangular and converge on one point Khufu (in Greek known as Χέωψ Cheops; ˈkiɑps was a Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt 's Old Kingdom. This article is about the country of Egypt For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Egypt topics.

See also

• Cadaver tomb