burial cave
Stone chamber grave
A burial cave is a natural or carved cave used to inter the dead.
Common in ancient cultures around the Mediterranean and Middle East, burial caves often held multiple bodies or generations of a family.
The practice appears throughout biblical and archaeological contexts: The tomb was a burial cave sealed with a large stone.
- tombUnderground chamber for remains
- family tombBurial vault for relatives
- cryptSubterranean burial vault
- catacombUnderground cemetery passage
- sepulcherChamber for the dead
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Land for interring remains
graveyard · churchyard · memorial park · potter's field · tumulus
burial cavematernity ward
Hospital section for childbirth
nursery · cradle · delivery room · womb · birthplace
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