earthen

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What survives of this ancient city today includes two long rows of rectangular earthen mounds, each about a meter high.

From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 2025

They constructed a 35-mile earthen berm around the city in an attempt to encircle its one million residents.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

Next to the ruptured dam, another earthen wall is being built in preparation for the resumption of mining operations, according to government officials.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

An extensive earthen wall is being built around the besieged Sudanese city of el-Fasher and is intended to trap people inside, according to research from Yale University.

From BBC • Aug. 29, 2025

And the water rose into the earthen houses and softened the walls and burst them apart and they melted down into the water and were as if they had never been.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck