exhumation

Examples from literature

I entreat my captain to have me buried in a vault from which my body can be exhumed in case the duke, my father, should request its exhumation. 
The body was exhumed. 
The dead are usually disposed of by cremation, but are often kept some time, being either embalmed or simply buried and exhumed subsequently. 
The families who had relatives buried in the cemetery of Port Royal des Champs were ordered to exhume and carry them elsewhere. 

exhume | American Dictionary

exhume
verb[ T ]
us/ɪɡˈzum, ɪksˈjum/
to remove a dead body from the ground after it has been buried

Examples of exhume

exhume
Their controversy then slumbered, and it is only recently that scholars have exhumed it.
Seeds were exhumed at regular intervals of 15 d during the storage period.
With untiring zeal he ransacked the archives, exhumed scores of documents and edited many of them.
Reefs have been exhumed by erosion of overlying shales.
The secondary burials are accompanied by offerings, possibly made up of vessels exhumed from primary burials.
For a thick extruding sequence, the cooling effect of the lower plate will be less significant at the top of the exhuming unit.
Seeds exhumed in spring were allowed to air dry in the laboratory for 1 week prior to germination testing.
At regular time intervals, seeds were exhumed and their germination tested.
Seeds remained buried in the field for 8 months and were exhumed in summer.
Seeds were exhumed from the mesh bags under fluorescent white light and were rinsed with distilled water to remove adhered soil particles.
Seeds exhumed from rain-fed plots certainly had been subjected to soil water content fluctuations, particularly seeds buried at shallow depths (5 cm).
This effect was large during the initial stages of the storage process, while low or null effects were observed for seeds exhumed at later stages.
We can suggest that burials contained six or more vessels, but when individuals were exhumed, they were reinterred with fewer goods, primarily bowls.
Seeds remained buried in the field for 6 months and were exhumed in spring during flooding in the lowland.
Seeds were exhumed from the mesh bags under laboratory fluorescent white light and were rinsed with distilled water to remove adhered soil particles.
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