Malik Bendjelloul

There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.

Swedish Director

Necropolis implies a cemetery with grand structures, not just simple graves.

Elaborate Monuments

A necropolis usually refers to a vast and expansive cemetery, often historic.

Large Scale

Often, a necropolis is part of ancient heritage and has archaeological value.

Historical Significance

The word 'necropolis' brings to mind the ancient rather than the modern.

Antiquity Emphasis

The term is often used when discussing archaeological discoveries or studies.

Archaeological Context

Necropolis can include other funeral structures, like monuments or crematoria.

Not Just Burials

 because he was obsessed with his mortality. He spent his last years desperately employing alchemists and deploying expeditions in search of elixirs of life that would help him achieve immortality. And as early as the first year of his reign, he began the construction of a massive underground necropolis

The incredible history...

 to investigate what triggered over a thousand years of pyramid building. He's been granted rare access to explore restricted areas of this necropolis. This is a pretty exciting moment for me because I've never been inside before.