Shaft and chamber tomb
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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 of rock with a square or round chamber excavated at the bottom where the dead were placed.
Examples include those at Xemxija in Malta which are Neolithic and Dayeh-va-dokhtar tombs in Fars province of Iran. They were also employed by the Ancient Egyptians.
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