burial chamber
collocation in Englishmeaningsofburialandchamber
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burial
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈber.i.əl/us/ˈber.i.əl/
the act of putting a dead body into the ground, or the ceremony connected ...
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chamber
noun
uk/ˈtʃeɪm.bər/us/ˈtʃeɪm.bɚ/
formal
a room used for a special or official purpose, or a group of people who form (part of) ...
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(Definition ofburialandchamberfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The centralburialchamberwas 8 x 8 m in size.
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Above the vaultedburialchamberwas a second relieving chamber that was roofed with 5 pairs of limestone beams each weighing 30 tons.
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Theburialchamberwas plundered in antiquity, every decoration was destroyed and/or stolen.
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Theburialchambercontained the dark grey basalt sarcophagus which held the body of the king.
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Theburialchamberpossibly housed an alabaster sarcophagus, many pieces were found in the sand and debris that filled the chamber.
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In 1996, they located aburialchamberat the bottom of the shaft, 80ft m below the desert.
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The excavation team found a narrow corridor that led to a 2m ft long, convert wideburialchamberfilled with dirt.
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The portcullis was originally destined to block the way to theburialchamberbut was never put into place across the passage.
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Those with more than one chamber may have multiple sub-chambers leading off from the mainburialchamber.
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Theburialchamberis a three-pillared room and it has three small side-rooms at its northern end.
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The chapel walls are decorated and so are the walls of theburialchamber, which was located at the bottom of a shaft.
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After several weeks of patiently removing earth from the ship's hull, they reached theburialchamber.
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Theburialchamberhad a gabled ceiling covered by painted stars.
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The rectangularburialchamberis located 8.8m ft meters under the ground level and measures 3.5mft 0 x convert7m.
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Theburialchamberwas better preserved and was also decorated.
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Unlike its predecessor, however, this second tomb was equipped with a stairway that provided access to theburialchamberfrom inside the building above.
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In the last named he is able to demonstrate a range of social classes among the owners of eachburialchamberwho commissioned the designs.
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In general, theburialchamberis placed in a roughly centered axial position, but this location relative to the completed cover building is not a rigid rule.
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The intention is sometimes clear—for example, if the find is discovered in aburialchamber, where it was likely to have been recovered at a later date.
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It is about the size of two double-decker buses, so transporting it to a storage site would clearly be cumbersome and would also require a largeburialchamber.
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This separates the secular or profane area of the passage from the sacredburialchamber.
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A short passage led from the tholos chamber to the actualburialchamber, which was dug out in a nearly cubical shape.
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Theburialchamberwas carved out of a pit in the bedrock.
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It is most famous for its gallery grave megalithic tombs which incorporate a port-hole slab separating the entrance from the mainburialchamber.
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Theburialchamberis a rectangular shape and divided into upper and lower pillared sections, with the lower part holding the sarcophagus of the king.
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A steep stairway leads down to theburialchamber, at the half of its way the stairs are interrupted by horizontal landing of unknown purpose.
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The skeleton was found in a bed inside a timber-builtburialchamber.
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Two mirrors made of polished pyrite were found in theburialchamberas well.
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Several items were found in the debris from the floor of theburialchamber.
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Only in theburialchamberwas a sarcophagus sunk into the floor.
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The lower corridor then finishes in the king'sburialchamber.
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A barrel vault covers theburialchamber, whose height is 2.10m.
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They usually featured one or several underground chambers, with one mainburialchamber.
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A mausoleum encloses aburialchambereither wholly above ground or within a burial vault below the superstructure.
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