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Why mausoleums are above ground?

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12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Mausoleum is the term for a monument tomb that is above ground, although within the mausoleum there might be a place to actually bury the body in the ground. But if you build a structure for a tomb, then it is called a mausoleum, they were originally popular with the Romans, and fell out of favor with the advent of the Christian era when Christians wanted to be buried in the earth. Later in modern Europe they became popular again.

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