Up to 50 People would have been buried in an ancient Stone Age Tomb. What name is given to such a tomb?
Chamber tomb barrows. Grave goods are a common characteristic of chamber tomb burials. In Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe, stone-built examples of these burials are known by the generic term of megalithic tombs. Chamber tombs are often distinguished by the layout of their chambers and entrances or the shape and material of the structure that covered them, either an earth barrow or stone cairn. A wide variety of local types has been identified, and some designs appear to have influenced others. General terms: Chamber tomb A chamber tomb is a tomb for burial used in many different cultures. In the case of
Tomb A.24 also looked after the magazines of the Amun temple in Karnak. Tomb A.24 Tomb A.6 is the modern number given to a now lost Theban tomb in Dra' Abu el-Naga'. The burial dates to the Ancient Egyptian 18th Dynasty and belongs to the "second priest of Amun" Simut. The tomb was already known in the early 19th century and was visited by several early travelers, such as Jean-François Champollion and John Gardner Wilkinson. Especially the latter made several copies of the painted decoration. He seems to have seen the tomb in a fairly good state of preservation while it was