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

He also said that it might help reveal whether the burial chamber of King Khufu still existed inside the pyramid.

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2023

A burial shaft descends to a burial chamber with a sarcophagus.

From Reuters • Feb. 9, 2023

The catacombs are tomb-black, but I know where we are: in a burial chamber that hasn’t been patrolled in years.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir