Examples of tomb

• The tomb was honeycombed with passages and chambers.

• For centuries the tomb lay inviolate until, by chance, it was discovered by two miners.

• His tomb was covered with a yellow patina of lichen.

• When they opened up the tomb they found treasure beyond their wildest dreams.

• Archaeologists learned that some people kept cats just so they could kill them and bury them in tombs. 

• Inside the tomb, scientists found a lot of gold. 

• Many of the tombs are falling apart. 

• The archaeologist studies treasures found in tombs. 

• The message said that anyone who enters the king’s tomb will die. 

• The pyramids in Egypt are really the tombs of ancient pharaohs. 

• These tombs for the dead are more expensive than the houses of the living. 

• They found a mummy in the tomb. 

• Things like fine cloth, coffins, and tombs were also expensive. 

• When one of them died, they built a special tomb – a pyramid. 

• As such, we recognize objects 'as' trees or mountains or tombs.

• It is possible that these pieces were used in ritual contexts outside the funerary context, then later placed in the tomb as an offering.

• There is no evidence of dismemberment or drying outside the tombs, and it is believed that individuals were buried shortly after death.

• Some, perhaps most, of those deposited in tombs, were complete, purposeful depositions, in the approximate positions and with the associations in which they were recovered.

• Normally, rich tombs are considered of high rank, whereas pit graves are synonymous with common folk.

• Many contributors link the use of shaft tombs to lineages or similar social groups.

• These high-status groups are associated with eastern buildings (or temples in a few cases) that contain tombs with painted linear decoration and texts.

• The shaft tomb discovered in the structure at the southern end of the plaza could strengthen this hypothesis.

• Amphoroid kraters have been discovered together with large quantities of other imports in tombs and with local domestic materials in houses.

• Indeed, the tomb complexes were originally built as burial places for the family members of high officials.

• However, the numerous shafts and chambers of the tomb complexes were extensively used for later burials.

• He then managed to recover the offerings from this tomb intact.

• Each tomb would be opened on subsequent occasions to bury members of the ruler's family immediately after their death.

• Some years ago a farmer working his field stumbled on the entrance of a shaft tomb.

• The textual information is supplemented by evidence from paintings and reliefs in tombs as well as by archaeological finds.