| Tanis MacDonald's analysis of Dionne Brand's Ossuaries reads poetry as a public archive of mourning and as a prosthetic for the violent rupture of the body and memory. |
| In memory of the salients of the hardest, most violent offensives, ossuaries have been constructed on the isolated outcrops of death. |
| Whereas the monuments to the dead are empty tombs, the ossuaries contain the remains of thousands, even tens of thousands of men, whose identities have been consumed by the ground and fire. |
| This motif is also found on religious reliquaries, ossuaries and sarcophagi in widely diffused geographical regions. |
| Built on sloping land, the Silberloch cemetery has 1,264 graves of soldiers who could be identified and six ossuaries. |
| Between the 5th and 7th centuries, the Sogdians made dried-brick caskets shaped like rectangular rooms to contain ossuaries, or urns for the bones of the dead. |
