Some of these images might send chills up your spine. The magnitude of some of the world’s tombs is unbelievable in some instances.

Throughout the history of human civilization, different cultures mourn and treat the dead differently. Some, like Tibetan Buddhists, have no use for burials as they dispose the dead by feeding corpses to vultures or by burning them in funeral pyres. Most cultures, however, show their respect by burying the dead, sometimes in complex and ornate tombs, crypts, and catacombs.

Read the rest here, plenty of pictures and good reading.