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English translation: underground tomb chambers / hypogea


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Spanish term or phrase:hipogeos
English translation:underground tomb chambers / hypogea
Entered by: Huw Watkins
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11:24 Aug 31, 2005
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Archaeology / The Argaric society
Spanish term or phrase: hipogeos
Ahora se utilizan, y seguramente se construyen, sepulcros megalíticos en las regiones prepirenaicas (Castro, Lull y Micó 1996), mientras siguen en uso otros lugares funerarios (cuevas, hipogeos, fosas).
Huw Watkins
United Kingdom
Local time: 19:02
underground tomb chambers / hypogea
Explanation:
Web definitions of "hypogeum":

(5) -- an underground chamber
projectsx.dartmouth.edu/classics/history/bronze_age/glossary.html

A rock-cut chamber tomb found in the Mediterranean, and dated to the Neolithic period.
www.geocities.com/ouarchsoc/glossary/h.html

(pl. hypogea) - usually found below living quarters, an underground chamber used as a tomb
www.catacombsociety.org/ics_glossary.html

Underground tomb chamber or chambers for group or family use
www.pinfold.com/icons/ghi.htm

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Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 11:02
Grading comment
Thanks muriel.
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5underground tomb chambers / hypogea
Muriel Vasconcellos
4 +1hypogeous (tombs)
Ana Brause


  

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hypogeous (tombs)


Explanation:
Suerte =o)

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Note added at 17 mins (2005-08-31 11:41:54 GMT)
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http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/Pre2003/Amore/amore.html

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Note added at 30 mins (2005-08-31 11:55:00 GMT)
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http://www.answers.com/hypogeous

Ana Brause
Local time: 15:02
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Marina Soldati
58 mins
  -> Thanks Marina, saludos =o)
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7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
underground tomb chambers / hypogea


Explanation:
Web definitions of "hypogeum":

(5) -- an underground chamber
projectsx.dartmouth.edu/classics/history/bronze_age/glossary.html

A rock-cut chamber tomb found in the Mediterranean, and dated to the Neolithic period.
www.geocities.com/ouarchsoc/glossary/h.html

(pl. hypogea) - usually found below living quarters, an underground chamber used as a tomb
www.catacombsociety.org/ics_glossary.html

Underground tomb chamber or chambers for group or family use
www.pinfold.com/icons/ghi.htm



Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 11:02
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 16
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