Dug up or removed something buried, especially a dead body, from the ground.
From Latin 'ex-' (out) + 'humus' (ground). The opposite of 'inhumed' (buried), this term is most common in forensic science and archaeology.
Crime shows made exhumation famous, but archaeologists have been exhuming ancient tombs for centuries—each skeleton is a time capsule that can reveal how people lived, what they ate, and even what killed them.
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