Mycenaean shaft tombs at Grave Circle A, Mycenae, 16th century BCE in Argolis, Greece, the resting place of the Mycenaean ruling familiesThe burial pit shaft tomb of the Tomb of Lady Fu Hao, 1200 BCE Shang dynasty, the wife and queen of Chinese general, Fu Hao and King Wu Ding in Anyang, Henan Province, ChinaA shaft tomb exhibit of the Western Mexico shaft tomb culture, 300 BCE and 400 CE at the Museo Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México
A shaft tomb or shaft grave is a type of deep rectangular burial structure, similar in shape to the much shallower cist grave, containing a floor of pebbles, walls of rubble masonry, and a roof constructed of wooden planks.[1]
A shafttomb or shaft grave is a type of deep rectangular burial structure, similar in shape to the much shallower cist grave, containing a floor of pebbles...
A shaft and chamber tomb is a type of chamber tomb used by some ancient peoples for burial of the dead. They consist of a shaft dug into the outcrops...
The Western Mexico shafttomb tradition refers to a set of interlocked cultural traits found in the western Mexican states of Jalisco, Nayarit, and, to...
The Tomb of Queen Hetepheres I (also G 7000x) is an Ancient Egyptian shafttomb at Giza. It is part of the Eastern Cemetery of the Great Pyramid of Giza...
The Griffin Warrior Tomb is a Bronze Age shafttomb dating to around 1450 BC, near the ancient city of Pylos in Greece. The grave was discovered by a...
during the Late Formative to Classic periods that participated in the shafttomb tradition in which some, but not all, people were interred underground...
of Campeche, and those associated with the Western Mexico shafttomb tradition. The tombs of Mayan rulers can only normally be identified by inferences...
site (800 BCE) in the Mascota Valley, which has a background with the shafttomb tradition. There is also evidence of green stone articles, Jadeite cylindrical...
discovery in 1894 of his nearly intact tomb in Dashur by Jacques de Morgan, see below. At Dahshur, the Shaft-tomb of Hor is located inside the Pyramid Complex...
necropolis of Byblos is a group of nine Bronze Age underground shaft and chamber tombs housing the sarcophagi of several kings of the city. Byblos (modern...
the thousands of figurines recovered by looters and ascribed to the "shafttomb tradition". The Classic period is marked by the rise and dominance of...
by 300–400 years. Schliemann found the gold funeral mask in 1876, in a shafttomb designated Grave V, at the site Grave Circle A, Mycenae. A total of eight...
Huitzilapa near the Magdalena Municipality, Jalisco, Mexico, belonging to the shafttomb culture. It is dated to 75 BCE. There is some uncertainty as to whether...
above. It has been proposed that this is the 4,000-year-old remnant of a shafttomb. Another theory is that it represents a Crusader "chimney" cut for ventilation...
for tombs in Deir el-Medina. After seven days of excavation, they found an intact burial shaft that led to a series of underground rooms. The tomb descended...
Mexico 2003 Colima earthquake List of plants of Colima Western Mexico shafttomb tradition "Portal Ciudadano de Baja California" (in Spanish). Archived...
process of burial of such mummies, but they were perhaps placed in a shafttomb. Poorer people used coffins fashioned from terracotta. The third and least...
Thutsmosis III.His burial took the form of a shafttomb, and little remains from the mud brick tomb chapel. The shaft was over 11 meters deep. Within the burial...
least the Mid/Late Formative periods of the Mesoamerican chronology. The tomb of Kʼinich Janaabʼ Pakal of the Maya city-state of Palenque, who became its...
place: beneath the hypostyle hall, modern archaeologists have found a shafttomb from the Middle Kingdom, yielding a rich hoard of religious and funerary...
The tomb has a simple layout, consisting of a shaft and four rooms. It is most similar to KV30 and appears to be an expanded version of a shafttomb with...
numbers of mummified ibises, baboons, cats, dogs, and falcons. Several shafttombs of officials of the Late Period Serapeum (the larger part dating to the...
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