| Built on sloping land, the Silberloch cemetery has 1,264 graves of soldiers who could be identified and six ossuaries. |
| Between the 5th and 7th centuries, the Sogdians made dried-brick caskets shaped like rectangular rooms to contain ossuaries, or urns for the bones of the dead. |
| Tanis MacDonald's analysis of Dionne Brand's Ossuaries reads poetry as a public archive of mourning and as a prosthetic for the violent rupture of the body and memory. |
| This motif is also found on religious reliquaries, ossuaries and sarcophagi in widely diffused geographical regions. |
| Use of ossuaries requires that the flesh first be removed, which can be achieved by burying bodies for an initial period in temporary tombs until only the bones remain. |
| Church ossuaries have had to be closed because little old ladies used to steal bones for lack of official relics, and put them in their homes. |
