underground chamber

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Partway down a nearby shaft was an underground chamber outfitted with flat stone niches for corpses—a workshop for mummifiers.

From Science Magazine • Feb. 1, 2023

Commander Skala, as he wants to be called, is controlling the Ukrainian operation to defend the city of Bakhmut in the eastern Donbas region from an underground chamber off a nondescript street.

From BBC • Jan. 4, 2023

The motivations were much the same for Japan’s competing neutrino experiment Hyper-K— an even bigger underground chamber that is filled with water instead of DUNE’s liquid argon.

From Scientific American • Apr. 13, 2022

What began at Trinity would continue until Sept. 23, 1992, when a detonation in an underground chamber at the Nevada Test Site marked the United States’ 1054th and final live nuclear test.

From Slate • Jul. 9, 2020

Every day they were driven into the underground chamber Nhamo had seen, and a huge fan blew their smell through the forest.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer