Mayo, leading to the establishment of a high Neolithic culture, characterized by the appearance of pottery, polished stone tools, rectangular wooden houses and communal megalithic tombs.

Stashed in an Umm an-Nar period communal tomb, these date to the Early Iron Age.

This appears to be the first, and only, site found in Britain, where corpses have been left to rot, prior to placement in communal tombs.

The identified remains are in individual burial niches in alphabetical order, and the unidentified remains are in two communal tombs.

In 1882, the remains of a communal tomb (polyandrion), including a colossal stone lion, were discovered on the road to Leuctra.

And some people in the highlands may shroud a cloth-wrapped body with new cloth, even a decade after an ancestor's death, before returning the remains to the communal tomb.

During the Bronze Age, the large communal tombs of the megalith builders were replaced with smaller burial mounds.

During the Umm an-Nar Period, large communal, free-standing tombs contain numerous interments.

Sinbad's wife falls ill and dies soon after, leaving Sinbad trapped in an underground cavern, a communal tomb, with a jug of water and seven pieces of bread.

Beginning also in the Late Helladic are to be seen communal tombs of rectangular form.