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Belowground Archeology

Hypogeum the kind found in Egypt

Entrance to the tomb of the Three Brothers in Palmyra in Syria

In archeology , especially in Egyptology , a tomb means more precisely underground tomb (as in the Valley of the Kings ) as opposed to air as the graves mastabas (cons diagram).

During the Greco-Roman period, on the Syrian coast, funeral traditions are Hellenistic. Thus one finds in particular cruciform tombs, along with other types of burial: burial in the ground, sarcophagus ...

The tomb of the Dunes, dun, high place in Gaul , at Poitiers , is actually a graveyard Merovingian , revealed by the RP of the Cross in the late ^nineteenth century.

The many graves Etruscan site of the necropolis Monterozzi , all excavated, buried under mounds are in belowground.