Historical "safe rooms" Was: Science question about underground survival.

[Carol]

Potioncat:
> Also thinking, that based on what members have suggested, is it 
possible the pyramids were safe rooms? They had the sorts of items 
we've considered--food, companionship, security. 


Carol responds:

All of which reminds me of Francis, Viscount Lovell. Potioncat knows
who he was, but for those of you who don't, he was a supporter and
friend of Richard III who (unlike Richard) survived the Battle of
Bosworth Field. Two years later (1487), he survived the Battle of
Stoke (associated with the Lambert Simnel rebellion against Henry
Tudor), only to disappear. (People thought that he had drowned
crossing I forget which river.) Many years later, in 1708, the
skeleton of a man was found in a secret room at Minster Lovell.
Apparently, Francis, twice declared a traitor by Henry VII (whom he
obviously had no desire to serve), starved to death in his own
basement "safe room" hiding from "the Tydder" (Tudor)!

Carol, who expected the Malfoys' secret room to be a "safe room" to
hide from the Aurors in, rather safer than Francis Lovell's