exhume vs sepulture

exhume

verb
  • To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter. 

  • To uncover; to bring to light. 

  • The archeologist exhumed artifacts from the ground with a shovel. 

sepulture

noun
  • The act of sepulchring, committing the remains of a deceased person to the grave or sepulchre. 

verb
  • To inter in a sepulture. 

How often have the words exhume and sepulture occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )