Though the tomb of Aeacus remained in a shrine enclosure in the most conspicuous part of the port city, a quadrangular enclosure of white marble sculpted with bas-reliefs, in the form in which Pausanias saw it, with the tumulus of Phocus nearby, there was no temenos of Peleus at Aegina.

Shorne Barrow ( or tumulus ) and Randalls Wood Barrow are two nearby ancient features.

The identification of the tumulus as a " tomb " has been challenged ; another interpretation is that it was a religious site dedicated to Cybele.

It was on Leuke, in one version of his legend, that the hero Achilles, in a hilly tumulus, was buried ( to this day, one of the mouths of the Danube is called Chilia ).

The tumulus or burial mound ( Greek Τύμβος, tymbos, i. e. tomb ), also called the " Soros ," for the 192 Athenian dead that was erected near the battlefield remains a feature of the coastal plain.

A location for Antaeus somewhere beyond the Maghreb might be quite flexible in longitude: when the Roman commander Quintus Sertorius crossed from Hispania to North Africa, he was told by the residents of Tingis ( Tangier ), far to the west of Libya, that the gigantic remains of Antaeus would be found within a certain tumulus ; digging it open, his men found giant bones ; closing the site, Sertorius made propitiatory offerings and " helped to magnify the tomb's reputation ".

Bedd Taliesin, a hilltop Bronze Age tumulus in Ceredigion, opposite Aberdyfi ( see above ), is a traditional site for his grave but the village of Tre-Taliesin, located at the foot of the hill, was actually named after the bard in the 19th century.

The presence of a tumulus, and other significant geographical features locally, point inconclusively towards the theory that the area was regarded in ancient times as a sacred place of assembly.

The Lexden Medallion was found when the tumulus was excavated in 1924 and is now in the Colchester Castle Museum.

During the Roman occupation of Britain there was a Roman villa at Little Kimble and a tumulus near Great Kimble church is probably a burial mound from the same period.

A tumulus near the monument was also tentatively identified as the site of the Macedonian polyandrion where the Macedonian dead were cremated.

This was based on a lyrical description of Twmbarlwm's " mystic tumulus " in Monmouthshire that Thomas imitated from Arthur Machen's autobiography Far Off Things ( 1922 )

In Estonian mythology Toompea is known as the tumulus mound over the grave of Kalev, erected in his memory by his grieving wife Linda, as described in the national epic Kalevipoeg: Linda mourned for Kalev for one month after another till three months had passed, and the fourth was far advanced.

In 1879, a cinerary urn was discovered beneath a tumulus at Revidge, north of the town.

Kofun ( 古墳 " old tumulus ") refers to characteristic keyhole-shaped burial mounds, and the Wei Zhi noting " a great mound was raised, more than a hundred paces in diameter " for Pimiko's tomb, may well be the earliest written record of a kofun.

The museum, which was inaugurated in 1993, was built in a way to protect the tombs, exhibit the artifacts and show the tumulus as it was before the excavations.

A tumulus near the river Lea was opened in the 1820s and it contained a stone sarcophagus of Romano-Celtic origin.

The Queen's Coppice, planted in 1953, now covers the site of an ancient tumulus, from which a stone ' coffin ' was dug out by antiquarians in 1808.

The most common type of burial among the Iron Age Illyrians was tumulus or mound burial.

In an Anglo-Saxon tumulus on Benty Grange Farm, in the south of the parish, the famous Benty Grange helmet was discovered in 1848.

A tumulus from the Hallstatt time period was found near Ballens.

West royal tumulus at Gamla Uppsala | Old Uppsala, suggested grave of King Eadgils ( photo: Jacob Truedson Demitz ) Eadgils, Adils, Aðils, Adillus, Aðísl at Uppsölum, Athisl, Athislus or Adhel was a semi-legendary king of Sweden, who is estimated to have lived during the 6th century.

In particular, there is no change in burial practice, and tumulus warrior graves continued to be erected throughout Merovingian times.

After his death, his attendants bury him in a tumulus, a burial mound, in Geatland.

He is buried in a tumulus or burial mound, by the sea.

An Anglo-Saxon tumulus | burial mound at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, England

Miamisburg is the location of a prehistoric Indian burial mound ( tumulus ), believed to have been built by the Adena Culture, about 1000 to 200 BCE.

This burial rite, with the funerary tumulus, is typical of both Scandinavia n and Eurasian nomad ic customs.

Gamla Uppsala is an area rich in archaeological remains: seen from the Grave ( burial ) | grave field whose larger tumulus | mound s ( left part ) are close to the royal mounds.

* a tumulus, a large mound of earth or stone placed over a burial site

The santuary ( temenos ) grew up around his burial mound ( tumulus ), located in the Classical period at the feet of Apollo's statue.

In phase B, tumulus ( kurgan ) burial becomes common, and cremation predominates.

Bowl Barrow is the name for a type of burial mound or tumulus.

An oval barrow is the name given by archaeologists to a type of prehistoric burial tumulus of roughly oval shape.

Archeological excavations revealed a cemetery consisting of a tumulus built over a platform structure and more than twenty Bronze Age burial caves of the shaft tomb type, many of which had been reused over long stretches of time.

The term is derived from kurgan (), a Turkic loanword in Russian for a tumulus or burial mound.

Dominating the moors to the south side of the village is the Scots-Pine-covered tumulus of Kirkcarrion, one of Teesdale's major Bronze Age burial sites.

Other sites include Pikestones, a Neolithic burial cairn, and Round Loaf, a Bronze Age tumulus which can be seen from the route across Great Hill from White Coppice.

A tumulus on a local farm was opened up to reveal an ancient burial site containing 15 skeletons.

Kurgan is a tumulus or burial mound in Eurasia, but especially in Russia and Ukraine.

Artificial mounds have been created for a variety of reasons throughout history, including ceremonial ( platform mound ), burial ( tumulus ), and commemorative purposes ( e. g. Kościuszko Mound ).