During his visit to Pasargadae he ordered Aristobulus to decorate the interior of the sepulchral chamber of his tomb.
The walls above seemed almost to touch, parting just enough for a shaft of late afternoon light to warm the sepulchral chamber in a soft glow.
"Listen," he said, his voice booming, echoing, in the vastness of that dark, sepulchral chamber.
In the base is a huge sepulchral chamber where his ashes lie and fourteen smaller chambers for the members of his family.
Here French explorer Victor Guérin found a large number of cut stones in the walls of modern houses, and an ancient tomb near the village with two sepulchral chambers.
In Greek, the word kouvouklion means sepulchral chamber but also can also mean the dormitory of the Byzantine emperors.
It was recorded around 1847 by Henry Crozier who described it as a "voe or sepulchral chamber".
It was found that the pyramids were commonly built over sepulchral chambers, containing the remains of bodies, either burned, or buried without being mummified.
Laid bare by their activities were, "sepulchral chambers hollowed out in the calcareous tufa."
The word boomed through the sepulchral chamber like the voice of God.