Often used in a legal or forensic context, referring to recovering evidence.

Forensic Connotations

Can be a sensitive subject due to its association with death and burial.

Sensitive Topic

Can refer to digging up objects other than bodies for investigation or study.

Not Only Bodies

Often used metaphorically in literature to symbolize bringing back forgotten ideas.

Metaphorical Use

Implies an action taken to regain attention or interest in something from the past.

Reviving Interest

Refers to the act of restoring forgotten cultural narratives or histories.

Cultural Memory

 When we find the grave, we take out the dirt and eventually clean the body, document it, and exhume it. We literally bring the skeleton out of the ground. Once we have those bodies, though, we take them back to the city, to our lab, and we begin a process of trying to understand mainly two One is how people died.

Fredy Peccerelli: A...

 Now the question comes to Is there any hope? And yes, there is hope. Now I don't know if anybody knows who this is. This is ... does somebody know? This is Beethoven. Now why would we know what Beethoven's skull looks like? Because his grave was exhumed.

Charles Limb: Building...

 recently staged an extreme artistic intervention. With the permission of relatives, it exhumed the corpses of refugees who had drowned at Europe's borders, transported them all the way to Berlin, and then reburied them at the heart of the German capital.

4 ways to build a human...

 times a day Rainey must exhume the dead with space and money scarce many poor families must rent burial sites here in what are called the apartments and like any tenant the dead can be evicted if the rent isn't paid after five years the

Life Among the Dead PIPE...

 so you bury the deceased and you leave their body in the ground until just bones remain. You exhume the bones; and then you find a log hollowed out by termites. And you paint the story of that person on the log, like they are here.

Amy Toensing: The...

 Rainey must exhume the dead with space and money scarce many poor families must rent burial sites here in what are called the apartments and like any tenant the dead can be evicted if the rent isn't paid after five years the

Living Among the Dead PIPE...

 When his body was exhumed and studied in 2010, the legendary gold and silver nose was nowhere to be found, with chemical traces suggesting that he wore a more casual brass nose instead. Tycho's mustache hair was also found

Tycho Brahe, the...

 much honor so much power and so much ingratitude so why is this a story that still speaks to that in Americans why is bolivars why have bolivars bones been exhumed and

The impact of Simón...

 They map old massacre sites, exhume and bury loved ones, and build sanctuaries and museums, all in the hope of pollinating a more just future.

The rebel radio that...

 Most don't. Truth is, we didn't find the virus, but we did develop new techniques to safely exhume bodies that might contain virus.

Exhume