Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index A necropolis is a cemetery or burying-place, literally a "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 near the sites of the centers of ancient civilizations. See also Death related Cemetery Catacombs Places Great Pyramid of Giza Memphis, Egypt Cairo, Egypt Saqqara, Egypt Lipari (Aeolian Islands) Locri (Ionian Sea) Amathus, Cyprus Ugarit (northern Syria) Rookwood Cemetery The Panthéon (Paris, France) Other List of ley lines This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.