Some types of tombs in Prehistoric and Old Kingdom
(about 2686-2181 BC) Egypt
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surface burial: a shallow hole in the ground
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shaft burial: a deeper hole, or shaft
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a shaft with one or more chambers
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staircase tomb: a staircase leads to the burial chamber
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mastaba: the building on top of many shafts (mastaba
is an Arabic word for bench)
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even small tombs could have had mastabas
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