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Mycenaean shaft tombs at Grave Circle A, Mycenae, 16th century BCE in Argolis, Greece, the resting place of the Mycenaean ruling families The burial pit shaft tomb of the Tomb of Lady Fu Hao, 1200 BCE Shang dynasty, the wife and queen of Chinese general, Fu Hao and King Wu Ding in Anyang, Henan Province, China A shaft tomb exhibit of the Western Mexico shaft tomb culture, 300 BCE and 400 CE at ...
The Western Mexico shaft tomb tradition or shaft tomb culture refers to a set of interlocked cultural traits found in the western Mexican states of Jalisco, Nayarit, and, to a lesser extent, Colima to the south, roughly dating to the period between 300 BCE and 400 CE, although there are disagreements on this end-date.
The iconic Great Pyramid of Giza is one of the best-known examples of a shaft and chamber tomb Cross-section diagram of the ancient Egyptian shaft and chamber tomb inside the Great Pyramid of Giza. 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 ...
Reconstruction of excavated shaft tomb exhibited at the National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico.. 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 a lesser extent, Colima to its south, roughly dating to the period between 300 BCE and 400 CE, although there is not wide agreement on this end date.
Schliemann found the gold funeral mask in 1876, in a shaft tomb designated Grave V, at the site Grave Circle A, Mycenae. [2] [3] A total of eight men were discovered in Grave Circle A, [3] [4] all of whom had weapons in their graves, [5] but only five had masks; those were in Grave IV and Grave V. [2] [4]
Recreation of a shaft and chamber tomb from the Casa de Cultura in Tala, Jalisco, Mexico. Shaft and chamber tombs were typically used for related family members, possibly part of a lineage. [31] [12] [32] Archaeologists consider shaft and chamber tombs to be an expression of broader Mesoamerican beliefs. Chambers may represent artificial caves ...
The walls of the tomb were covered with texts from the Book of the Dead, [1] and inscriptions in the tomb identified the man buried as Iufaa, a high-ranking priest and palace official. [3] The team of researchers opened the sarcophagus of Iufaa in February 1998. [2] The sarcophagus contained a black-grayish basalt mummiform sarcophagus.
KV27 is located between tombs KV21 and KV28 in a side wadi that branches off the main valley. The tomb has a simple layout, consisting of a shaft and four rooms. [1] It is most similar to KV30 and appears to be an expanded version of a shaft tomb with a single room, or it may represent an architectural halfway between a single-roomed shaft tomb and those which have multiple rooms opening from ...