Mastaba

Arapça 'tezgah' anlamına gelen kelime, 1. ve 2. Hanedanlığın kraliyet mezarları da dahil olmak üzere, çoğunlukla Arkaik Dönem ve Eski Krallık'a ait Mısır mezarlarının kerpiç üst yapısı. Düz çatılı ve yeraltı mezar odasının şaftını çevreleyen ...

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Karabucak Mausoleum

Myra is located in the modern-day district of Demre (Kale) in the Antalya province of Turkey. The mausoleum in Myra is situated near the modern road between Myra and Sura. It is constructed with square limestone blocks and rises on a three-tiered platform. It has a rectangular plan and features C...

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Beehive Tomb

Miken uygarlığının mimari yapılarından biri olan tholos mezarı, kesilmiş ve cilalanmış konglomerat taş bloklarının birbirine geçmesiyle oluşturulmuş, sivri kubbeli bir yapıdır. Genellikle bir giriş yolu ve büyük bir kapısı vardır. Bronz Çağı'nın zengin ve asil kişileri, ba...

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Tantalus Tomb

Pausanias: Now that the Tantalus is buried here who was the son of Thyestes or Broteas (both accounts are given) and married Clytaemnestra before Agamemnon did, I will not gainsay; but the grave of him who legend says was son of Zeus and Pluto—it is worth seeing—is on Mount Sipyl...

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Berbati Tholos Tomb

Greece, Argolis, Prosymna: Gateway and stomion of the tholos tomb of Berbati.

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Karabucak Mausoleum

Myra, günümüzde Antalya ilinin Demre (Kale) ilçesindedir. Myra’daki mezar anıtı Myra ile Sura arasındaki modern yolun yakınındadır. Dörtgen kireç taş bloklar ile inşa edilmiştir ve üç basamaklı bir platform üzerinde yükselmektedir. D&o...

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Berbati Tholos Tomb

Pente Oria Tomb

Tiryns Tholos Tomb

Orestes' Tomb Mycenae

Mycenae Kato Fournos Tomb

Prosymna Tholos Tomb

Lion Tomb Mycenae

Tomb of Atreus Mycenae

Lagina Diagoras of Rhodes Tomb

Arslantepe Royal Tomb

Sardis Pyramid Tomb

Karabucak Mausoleum

Myra Painted Tomb Lion's Tomb

Teimiussa Trismestos Kluwanimi Tomb

Tlos Tomb of Bellerophon

Theangela Tomb Q Pirges Tomb?

Stratonicea Macedonian Tomb

Cnidus Roman Tomb

Tantalus Tomb

Xanthos Lycian Tomb Pillar Tomb

Telmessos Rock Tombs

Temple Tomb At Sidyma

Antiphellos House Tomb

House Tomb house-type rock-tomb known as Doric Tomb also.

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Antiphellos House Tomb

Shaft Tombs (China)

The vertical shaft tomb characteristic of Bronze Age China (the Shang and Western Zhou dynasties) has two distinctive features. First, its walls step inward on all four sides, part way down the shaft, forming a shelf or ercengtai. Second, beneath the coffin or wooden burial chamber in the bottom ...

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Shaft Tombs (China)

Severn-Cotswold Tombs

A group of megalithic tombs found around the Bristol Channel in southern England. They usually have chambers of gallery grave type, sometimes transepted gallery graves, covered by trapezoidal mounds, usually far longer than required for functional support of the chambers. Other features found inc...

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Severn-Cotswold Tombs

Tombs

Group of tombs belonging to the Late Neolithic/ Copper Age of the Paris Basin in Northern France. Both rock-cut tombs and megalithic gallery graves occur. The megalithic tombs often include port-hole slabs, while the rock-cut tombs sometimes have female ‘goddess’ figures carved on their walls. Co...

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Tombs

Mausoleum

[Greek mausoleion], Properly used of the great tomb of Mausolus at Halicarnassus but also used of various grand tomb structures. The Mausoleion at Halicarnassus was erected, or at any rate finished, by Mausolus’s sister-wife and successor, Artemisia II, shortly after his death in 353 BC. As one o...

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Mastaba

[Arabic: ‘bench’]. The name given to the low rectangular superstructures which mark many tombs of the Egyptian Early Dynastic period and the Old Kingdom. Nobles and court officials were buried in tombs of this type, sometimes adjacent to the royal burial place. Initially made of mud-brick, the la...

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Langi Tombs

Large square or rectangular earthen tombs on the island of Tonga. They have terraced sides faced with slabs of cut coral limestone. According to tradition, langi were the burial places of the Tongan ruling aristocracy. None have been excavated.

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Hog-Back Tombs

These tombs mostly date from the 10th century and are believed to have been developed in northwest England. They take the form of rectangular blocks with pitched roofs, and are usually decorated with interlace and other typical designs. Many scholars believe that the tombs imitate vernacular arch...

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Hog-Back Tombs

Gallery Grave

One of the major categories of megalithic tomb in prehistoric Europe, characterized by a rectangular chamber with no separate entrance passage. Gallery graves are frequently but not always found under long barrows; they may be subdivided (segmented) or have additional side chambers (transepted); ...

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Columbarium

[Latin: dovecot]. The name derives from the pigeon-holes {loculi) provided for cinerary urns and other ash containers, which characteristically lined the funerary complexes of certain large Roman households. This type of burial is typically afforded to the large staff of slaves and freedmen, and ...

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Clyde-Carlingford Tombs

Group of megalithic chamber tombs found in southwest Scotland and northern Ireland. They are sometimes described as segmented gallery graves, since they consist of rectangular chambers subdivided into a number of segments. Another important characteristic was the forecourt, Concave or semicircula...

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Chamber Tomb

Term for any tomb, whether rock-cut or built above ground, with a large or fairly large chamber to contain the dead and accompanying grave goods. Chamber tombs were often, but by no means always, used for collective burial over long periods of time. They occur in many parts of the world at differ...

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Abu Simbel

Great temple on the west bank of the Nile in northern Nubia, 230 km upstream of Aswan, constructed by Rameses II in the 13th century bc as part of the cultural Egyptianization of Nubia under the Eighteenth Dynasty (see Dynastic Egypt). The facade of the temple is dominated by four 20-metre-high s...

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Columbarium

Roma antik döneminden, duvar nişleri veya sineer çukurlar olan yeraltı mezarlığı için kullanılan terimdir.

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Columbarium

A term from Roman antiquity for a subterranean sepulcher with wall niches or pigeonholes for cinerary urns. The term was also used for the recesses themselves. This type of burial was typically afforded to the large staff of slaves and freedmen. . Originating as variants of traditional Etruscan a...

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Columbarium

Tomb

A burial structure or chamber; the term is applied loosely to all kinds of graves, funerary monuments, and memorials. In many cultures and civilizations the tomb was superseded by, or coexisted with, monuments or memorials to the dead. The style of tombs has undergone different phases of developm...

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