burial chamber
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Last summer, archaeologists from Gothenburg University and Kiel University excavated a dolmen, a stone burial chamber, in Tiarp near Falköping in Sweden.
From Science Daily • Jan. 29, 2024
One Siberian mummy, the 2,500 year-old Ice Maiden, was quite literally frozen in a block of ice after her burial chamber flooded and the water quickly froze.
From National Geographic • Aug. 7, 2023
A burial shaft descends to a burial chamber with a sarcophagus.
From Reuters • Feb. 9, 2023
Parts of it sit above the surface, but a shaft stretches down to an embalming room and burial chamber underground, where the jars were discovered.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 1, 2023
“They also found a burial chamber, didn’t they?”
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
