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

It has captivated visitors since it was built as a royal burial chamber some 4,500 years ago.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 2, 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