rock-cut tomb
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Mycenaean tombs
- In Aegean civilizations: The Shaft Grave Period on the mainland (c. 1600–1450)
…family tomb, however, was a rock-cut chamber with a dromos leading down to the entrance. The entrance was blocked with stones and the passage filled with earth after each burial. The rock-cut tomb may have been developed in Messenia during the 16th century under Cretan influence, like the tholos tomb.…
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Portugal
- In Portugal: Settlement patterns
…later Neolithic megalithic monuments and rock-cut tombs are found in west-central Portugal or south of the Tagus. Known sites of early metal-using (Copper Age [Chalcolithic Period] and Bronze Age) people are concentrated in the drier portions of Portugal. Only from the Early Iron Age onward does the whole of Portugal…
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private tomb architecture
- In Egyptian art and architecture: Private tombs
Rock-cut tombs subsequently were to become a more common kind of private tomb, although mastabas were built in the royal cemeteries of the 12th dynasty.
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