Ossuary

Ossuary: An ossuary is a container for skeletal remains. Ossuaries have been used around the world and across time for different reasons. Some cultures disinterred corpses and reburied the remaining bones on ossuaries to conserve space within tombs. Some war memorials are ossuaries, as the only remains recovered from the battlefields were bones. Ossuary shares its etymology with ossify and reliquary.

One had authenticated the ossuary of James, the brother of Jesus, only to see his reputation tarnished when it was unmasked as a fake.