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...

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 shaft tomb tradition refers to a set of interlocked cultural traits found in the western Mexican states of Jalisco, Nayarit, and, to...

and consecutively located in three cultural periods: Los Concheros, the shaft tomb tradition and the Aztatlán tradition. Los concheros ("concha" = shell)...

chest. At Dahshur, the Shaft-tomb of Hor is located inside the Pyramid Complex of Amenemhat III, reusing and expanding a shaft-tomb originally made for a...

3150-3000 BC. Early Bronze Age IA shaft tombs disturbed by looters, Bab edh-Dhra cemetery Bab edh-Dhra, hill with Bronze Age shaft graves (Cemetery A) Bab edh-Dhra...

is a series of ten shaft tombs for members of the royal family. While king Hor occupies tomb 1, Nubhotepti-Khered is buried in tomb 2. Her burial was found...

The tomb of Hetepheres I (also G 7000x) is an Ancient Egyptian shaft tomb at Giza. It is part of the Eastern Cemetery of the Great Pyramid of Giza (Necropolis...

culture shared in the tradition of burying some of their dead in shaft and chamber tombs. Archaeological work from the past few decades have demonstrated...

The Griffin Warrior Tomb is a Bronze Age shaft tomb dating to around 1450 BC, near the ancient city of Pylos in Greece. The grave was discovered by a...

eastern Mexico Western Mexico shaft tomb tradition, 1500–300 BC, Michoacan, Colima, Jalisco, Nayarit Western Mexico shaft tomb tradition, 300 BC–400 AD, Jalisco...

site (800 BCE) in the Mascota Valley, which has a background with the shaft tomb tradition. There is also evidence of green stone articles, Jadeite cylindrical...

hold the bodies of the dead. In some ways, it is similar to the deeper shaft tomb. Examples occur across Europe and in the Middle East. A cist may have...

during the Late Formative to Classic periods that participated in the shaft tomb tradition in which some, but not all, people were interred underground...

Archaeology. 48: 9–13. Bareš, Ladislav; Smoláriková, Květa, eds. (1999). The shaft tomb of Udjahorresnet at Abusir (1. vyd ed.). Praha: Universitas Carolina Pragensis...

the thousands of figurines recovered by looters and ascribed to the "shaft tomb tradition". The Classic period is marked by the rise and dominance of...

surrounded by walls. There are two sets of walls; between them, there are ten shaft tombs, which are a type of burial structure formed from graves built into natural...

of Campeche, and those associated with the Western Mexico shaft tomb tradition. The tombs of Mayan rulers can only normally be identified by inferences...

Tlatilco Cuicuilco Zapotec Mezcala Chupícuaro Quelepa Western Mexico shaft tomb tradition Teuchitlán Veraguas Diquis Cholula Teotihuacan Nicoya Veracruz...

by 300–400 years. Schliemann found the gold funeral mask in 1876, in a shaft tomb designated Grave V, at the site Grave Circle A, Mycenae. A total of eight...

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...

valley also contains three shaft tombs, which are the origin of the valley's name. The modern labels for these three tombs are QV 89, QV 90, and QV 91...

above. It has been proposed that this is the 4,000-year-old remnant of a shaft tomb. Another theory is that it represents a Crusader "chimney" cut for ventilation...

Epi-Olmec Huastec Izapa Mezcala Mixtec Nicoya Olmecs Pipil Purépecha Quelepa Shaft tomb tradition Teotihuacan Tepanec Teuchitlán Tlatilco Tlaxcaltec Toltec Totonac...

Epi-Olmec Huastec Izapa Mezcala Mixtec Nicoya Olmecs Pipil Purépecha Quelepa Shaft tomb tradition Teotihuacan Tepanec Teuchitlán Tlatilco Tlaxcaltec Toltec Totonac...

Huitzilapa near the Magdalena Municipality, Jalisco, Mexico, belonging to the shaft tomb culture. It is dated to 75 BCE. There is some uncertainty as to whether...

numbers of mummified ibises, baboons, cats, dogs, and falcons. Several shaft tombs of officials of the Late Period Serapeum (the larger part dating to the...

Domus de Janas Dysser Medway tomb Shaft and chamber tomb Tomb of Two Brothers Chen, X. (2015). Eastern Han (AD 25-220) Tombs in Sichuan. Archaeopress Publishing...

Tlatilco Cuicuilco Zapotec Mezcala Chupícuaro Quelepa Western Mexico shaft tomb tradition Teuchitlán Veraguas Diquis Cholula Teotihuacan Nicoya Veracruz...

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