burial chamber

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"This is the first royal tomb to be discovered since the ground-breaking find of King Tutankhamun's burial chamber in 1922," said Egypt's minister of tourism and antiquities Sherif Fathy.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 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

Because her burial chamber was constructed from permafrost earth, the ice that formed inside never melted.

From National Geographic • Aug. 7, 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