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

Menkaure’s chambers include niche decorations unique to Giza and a vaulted ceiling in his burial chamber itself.

From National Geographic • Dec. 20, 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

Facing the entrance was a false door, built against the bricked-in side of the shaft that dropped straight downward to the burial chamber itself.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw