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

On a recent December afternoon, Mr. Baumgaertel removed the cover leading to an underground chamber.

From New York Times • Jan. 1, 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

I began to think I must be in an underground chamber, lit by blinding lights, and that the chamber was full of people who for some reason were holding me down.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath