tumulus
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Last summer, archaeologists and a metal detectorist conducted a small survey of the tumulus on behalf of the Norwegian Directorate for Culture Heritage.
From New York Times ● May 31, 2024
Both the capstone and the tumulus were dismantled in 1925 during an excavation led by Hugo Obermaier, a Spanish-German anthropologist and prehistorian.
From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2022
Bassett said he was sitting on a pile of boulders when he realized that the rocks were the top layer of a tumulus, an archaeological term for a burial chamber or sepulcher.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 27, 2015
Bassett said afterward that the site includes an apron of riprap around the men’s tumulus, which is in a ravine.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 27, 2015
The call sounded from far away, and Wart found himself standing by the side of an ancient tumulus, like an enormous mole hill, with a Mack hole in front of him.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Sardis' landscape is vulnerable to natural erosion, while many tumuli have already been damaged by farming.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 25, 2026
With its origins in pre-Buddhist burial mounds or sacred tumuli, it retains a cosmogonic power.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2020
"In the smoky firelight the two old men nodded off like a pair of ancient kings passing the aeons in their tumuli."
From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2010
Near this is a curious Danish encampment, with a number of pits and tumuli, called Grime's Graves, from the aforementioned Grime.
These unfinished citadels were either fortifications of some tribe or another, long since abandoned, or ancient tumuli, such as are still frequently found in the steppes above the Black Sea.
From The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) by Max Duncker
