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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.
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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.
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.
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.
* 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.
The most common type of burial among the Iron Age Illyrians was tumulus or mound burial.
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 tumulus nearby was credited as the burial mound of his father, and the men of Argos had the privilege of naming the priest of Nemean Zeus, Pausanias was informed when he visited in the late second century CE.
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 ).
tumulus and mound
Kurgan is the Turkic term for a tumulus ; mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves, originating with its use in Soviet archaeology, now widely used for tumuli in the context of Eastern European and Central Asian archaeology.
A tombolo, from the Italian tombolo, derived from the Latin tumulus, meaning ' mound ,' and sometimes translated as ayre ( Old Norse eyrr, meaning ' gravel beach '), is a deposition landform in which an island is attached to the mainland by a narrow piece of land such as a spit or bar.
In folklore the hill is known as the tumulus mound over the grave of Kalev, erected in his memory by his grieving wife.
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.
A tumulus ( plural tumuli ) is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.
A cairn ( a mound of stones built for various purposes ), might also be originally a tumulus.
The word tumulus is Latin for ' mound ' or ' small hill ', from the PIE root * teuh < sub > 2 </ sub >- with extended zero grade * tum -, ' to bulge, swell ' also found in tumor, thumb, thigh and thousand.
Groups of pit or cist graves containing elite members of the community were sometimes covered by a tumulus ( mound ) in the manner established since the Middle Helladic period.
A bank barrow, sometimes referred to as a barrow-bank, ridge barrow, or ridge mound, is a type of tumulus first identified by O. G. S.
The sharp bend in the river Effra before it flowed into the Thames, a strategic mound or tumulus, and an important fork in the main road from the river crossing which is now known as London Bridge.
Artificial hills may be referred to by a variety of technical names, including mound and tumulus.
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Beowulf is buried in Geatland on a cliff overlooking the sea, where sailors are able to see his tumulus.
Especially fruitful are the hypogeal or " underground " chamber or system of chambers cut into tuff and covered by a tumulus.
File: Galatian bronze horse bit. jpg | Galatian bronze horse bit, 3rd century BC, Hidirsihlar tumulus, Bolu.
File: Galatian bracelets and earrings 3rd century BCE Bolu Hidirsihlar tumulus. jpg | Galatian bracelets and earrings, 3rd century BC, Hidirsihlar tumulus, Bolu.
File: Galatian torques 3rd century BCE Bolu Hidirsihlar tumulus. jpg | Galatian torcs, 3rd century BC, Hidirsihlar tumulus, Bolu.
File: Galatian plate 3rd century BCE Bolu Hidirsihlar tumulus. jpg | Galatian plate, 3rd century BC, Hidirsihlar tumulus, Bolu.
File: Galatian object 3rd century BCE Bolu Hidirsihlar tumulus. jpg | Galatian object, 3rd century BC, Hidirsihlar tumulus, Bolu.
During the Bronze Age, several artifacts from tumulus burials have been unearthed in central and southern Albania, showing close connection with sites in southwestern Macedonia and Lefkada, Greece.
If set completely underground, it may be covered by a tumulus.
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