In Lycia, five distinct types of tomb can be identified:
Pillar-tombs are unique to Lycia and were for important dynasts.
Temple-tombs are maybe the most impressive of the Lycian tombs and consist of a temple facade with a burial chamber behind it.
House-tombs were modelled on the wooden houses of the Lycians and so give us some idea of what everyday accommodation was like several thousand years ago.
Pigeon-hole tombs were the down-market version of temple and house tombs, small unadorned chambers cut into a cliff-face.
Sarcophagi, plentiful, dot the landscape - even submerged in the sea where land retreated. In Roman times sarcophagi became smaller and less ornate, perhaps as the importance of ancestor-worship declined.