Rock-cut tomb

• Egyptian rock-cut tombs (1450 BCE, Thebes, Egypt). • Phrygian rock-cut tombs such as the Midas monument (700 BCE). • Etruscan rock-cut tombs, Etruria, Italy (500 BCE). • Tomb of Darius I (Naqsh-e Rostam (480 BCE). • Lycian rock-cut tombs (4th century BCE). • Petra, Jordan (100 CE). ==Kokh==

A kukh (plural: kukhim, , more often: kokhim), in Latin loculus, plural loculi, is a type of tomb complex characterized by a series of long narrow shafts, in which the deceased were placed for burial, radiating from a central chamber. These tomb complexes were generally carved into a rock face, and were usually closed with a stone slab and had channels cut into the centre of the shaft to drain any water that seeped through the rock. A kukh complex survives at the far west end of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. The church wall runs through the centre of the complex, which means that the entire entrance area has been carved away by the 4th-century church builders. Many more kukh graves can be found throughout the Judean foothills. ==Examples==

File:Gerdek Rock Tomb front detail, Hellenistic period, 2nd century BC, district of Çorum, Turkey.jpg|Gerdek Rock Tomb, Hellenistic period, 2nd century BCE, Çorum, Turkey File:Tomba a dado necropoli della casetta blera.jpg|Etruscan rock-cut tomb in Blera, Italy File:Myra Rock Tombs.jpg|Rock-cut tombs in Myra File:Petra Jordan BW 21.JPG|Al Khazneh or the Treasury at Petra File:Tomb of Avshalom in the Kidron Valley;.jpg|Tomb of Absalom in Jerusalem File:Qasr al Farid.JPG|Qasr al-Farid, tomb in the archeological site of Mada'in Saleh, Al-'Ula, Hejaz, Saudi Arabia (1st century CE) File:Naqsh-e Rustam 6.jpg|Tomb of Darius the Great, part of the ancient Naqsh-e Rostam Necropolis, Iran File:Rock-cut tombs in Horvat Geres (Jurish).jpg|Kokhim: sepulchres (burial shafts) in Israel File:Ph.Kastellorizo–Meg.Lycian 03.jpg|Lycian tomb in Kastellorizo, Greece ==See also==