How To Use burial chamber In A Sentence
- Many copies of the book have been found in tombs and burial chambers, where they were presumably placed for the use of the dead. Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1715
- They dug up thousands of plates, brooches, hairpins and pendants, carefully placed for the afterlife with the bodies of wealthy rulers entombed in royal burial chambers.
- The king was then taken to his burial chamber deep below the pyramid and then sealed there for all eternity.
- Some of the material was found in what was later felt to be a storehouse or shrine, and a second site revealed the burial chamber of an important person.
- Curses were routinely used as a deterrent against tomb raiders in ancient Egypt, as the Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter discovered when excavating Tutankhamun's burial chamber.
- Egyptologists say unlike treasures discovered in burial chambers in the Valley of the Kings at Luxor, no such trove has ever been found inside the three great Pyramids of Giza.
- The only bones that now survive from the excavation are four femora that were recovered from the south-eastern burial chamber.
- Portal tombs are so called from the two large upright stones forming the entrance to the burial chamber; a capstone is set over these and slopes backwards to rest on backstones.
- In the burial chamber, a nest of four golden shrines, each sitting within the other, are removed, to reveal a stone sarcophagus.
- The archeologists found fragments of bone in the burial chamber.
