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tengwar2
1299 days ago
An ossuary is usually something like a building (e.g. a charnel house), but apparently you are right in saying that it is applied to Jewish bone-boxes (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossuary#Jewish_ossuaries
). For the other meaning, they can be vast. I visited the Paris Catacombs (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catacombs_of_Paris
) and estimated that the remains of about 3M people were down there.