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Sep. 27, 2014

hypogeum \hahy-puh-JEE-uhm, hip-uh-\ noun 1. an underground burial chamber. 2. Ancient Architecture. the underground part of a building, as a vault. Quotes All these royal personages are successively named in the inscriptions of the hypogeum, and thus form a supplement, and a valuable confirmation, of the table of Abydos. -- Sylvanus Urban, "Champollion’s Egyptian Expedition," The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 146, 1829 Origin Hypogeum comes from the Greek word hypógeion meaning “underground chamber.” It entered English in the early 1700s.

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