The Post Quiz: Burial Places - Answers

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Do you know where all the bodies are buried?

Burial Places: Answers

The Taj Mahal.

Boy, you'd think historical figures would all get fancy tombs. Not so: a surprising number of people in the history books can't be found. Searching for them keeps historians busy digging up car parks and such.

Here are the answers.

Historical FigureBurial Location
  1. Julius Caesar
  2. Sir Thomas More
  3. Dr Eugene Shoemaker
  4. Nelson Mandela
  5. Abraham Lincoln
  6. Friedrich Barbarossa
  7. Gene Roddenberry
  8. Richard III
  9. Charlemagne
  10. Brian Boru
  1. Not buried, cremated
  2. Body: Tower of London. Head:???
  3. The moon
  4. Qunu
  5. Springfield, Illinois
  6. In several parts of the Holy Land (after being pickled)
  7. Space
  8. Car park, Leicester
  9. Different reliquaries in Aachen Cathedral
  10. Inside a wall in Armagh

If you weren't sure about all these, don't feel bad. Academics and urban legend-mongers have been arguing about it for years.

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