Sumerian
dave
Nah, the story I'm thinking of involved a whole group of people who were buried alive and had a weird society going on in their catacombs, or something like that. It was a long time ago since I read any Poe so I can't remember exactly, but I'm sure there could have been a Tales From the Crypt based on that since they do borrow a lot of old and famous macabre tales.