burial chamber

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The crew found the first tomb in an area associated with the resting places of royal women, but when they got into the burial chamber they found it decorated - the sign of a pharaoh.

From BBC • Feb. 22, 2025

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

The judge’s was the one with the narrowest entrance passage and only two rooms beside the burial chamber.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw