Necropolis

Necropolis

For The 1980 gothic novel by Basil Copper, see Necropolis (novel).

For the record label, see Necropolis Records.

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View of the Etruscan necropolis of Banditaccia, in Cerveteri, Italy.

Necropolis - athlete tomb (Taranto), Italy.

Nepasa necropolis in Algeria.

Roknia necropolis in Algeria.

Radimlja necropolis of stećak in Stolac, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Necropolis de San Carlos Borromeo in August 2007, in Cuba.

Facade of an unfinished five-star hotel overlooking Fengdu, People's Republic of China.

The Battle of Warsaw (1920) section of Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw, Poland.

Chaukundi necropolis near Karachi, Pakistan.

A necropolis (plural: necropoleis or necropoles) is a large cemetery or burial place (from Greek nekropolis "city of the dead"). Apart from the occasional application of the word to modern cemeteries outside large towns, the term is chiefly used of burial grounds, often an abandoned city or town, near the sites of the centers of ancient civilizations.

Grave field is a term for prehistoric burial grounds that do not include any above-ground structures or markers. These include row graves, urnfields, tumuli, etc.