• Burial vaults – stone or brick-lined underground spaces for interment (rather than burial), originally vaulted, often privately owned for specific family groups; usually beneath a religious building such as a church or in a churchyard or cemetery
• Church monuments – within a church (or tomb-style chests in a churchyard) may be places of interment, but this is unusual; they more commonly stand over the grave or burial vault rather than containing the actual body and are therefore not tombs
• Crypts – often, though not always, for interment; similar to burial vaults but usually for more general public interment
• Hypogeum tombs - stone-built underground structures for interment, such as the tombs of ancient Egypt
• Martyria - Mausolea for the remains of martyrs, such as San Pietro in Montorio
• Mausolea (including ancient pyramids in some countries) – external free-standing structures, above ground, acting as both monument and place of interment, usually for individuals or family group
• Megalithic tombs (including Chamber tombs) – prehistoric places of interment, often for large communities, constructed of large stones and originally covered with an earthen mound
• Sarcophagi – stone containers for bodies or coffins, often decorated and perhaps part of a monument; these may stand within religious buildings or greater tombs or mausolea
• Sepulchres – cavernous rock-cut spaces for interment, generally in the Jewish or Christian faiths
• Architectural shrines – in Christianity, an architectural shrine above a saint's first place of burial, as opposed to a similar shrine on which stands a reliquary or feretory into which the saint's remains have been transferred
• Other forms of archaeological 'tombs' such as ship burials

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