Should graves be disturbed?

[Neighbor]

The custom or rites of many cultures includes even today the process of allowing the body to decompose within a tomb chamber. The body may be covered and wrapped with herbs to help with the horrible odor of decomposing tissues. and organs. After one year  the designated heir of the deceased, usually the oldest son enters the tomb strips the remaining bones of sinew, and prepares the bones for ossification- the cleaning and placing of the bones into an urn or container to be placed  in the crypt area of a cemetery or other place of honoring the memory of the deceased.

Most ancient churches house beneath their floors,  or under the altar there , the ossified remains of saints in Christ, whether they be old testament saints or new testament saints. A comparatively modern church 1245 AD, Westminster Abbey  contains the human remains of 17 monarchs of England,  http://www.westminster-abbey.org/our-history

Questions of the location of Peter's remains, are they are the Basilica at Rome or at a tomb within Jerusalem, arise as contoversaries of some importance, because there is an natural concern, and innate interest, for knowledge of the place of rememberance of those famous as well as those loved by us individually as friends and as family.

Of course places of rest of human remains are "sacred"*, as means to comprehend life itself, more than death, life, it's meaning, the mercy of God in His rescue of sin filled individuals through the shed blood of Jesus for all that believe on Him as Lord God and savior. Why even lower created animals have a sense of sacred remembrance, some are clamed to have burial grounds and actually bury their dead, the elephant being one example of such claims. even some species of insects will carry off their dead to a common place of disposal, neatly organized places.

* Sacred meaning it provides a place of demarcation of the completion of life, and appreciation of that gift of life from God, not that the place itself is to be worshipped.