tumulus


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(archeology) a heap of earth placed over prehistoric tombs

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The Laona tumulus is monumental in size (100m x 60m x 10m) and as such remains unique in Cyprus to this day.
The appendix entries are organized by tomb type (tumulus or rock-cut) and then by region (Lydia, Phrygia, etc.); the index will aid those looking for individual tombs in this extensive list.
KEY WORDS: Vagotomy; Pulmonary Edema; Mesobuthus Tumulus Envenomation; Apnea
With its 22 metre diameter and 65 metre height, Dulgata Mogila (Nova Zagora/Bulgaria) tumulus contains the most important physician tombs in Balkans.
The second discovery, the Laona mount is situated 75m north of the Hadjiabdoulla complex and is a man-made tumulus (an ancient burial mound) of significant dimensions.
In the present study the foraging activities of two common scorpions i.e., Hottentotta tumulus (Fabricius, 1798) and Odontobuthus odonturus (Pocock, 1897) of Sargodha Division, Punjab, Pakistan were recorded in both the laboratory and field.
Tumulus as Sema: Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millennium BC; 2 volume set
Beowulf is buried in Geatland on a cliff overlooking the sea, where sailors are able to see his tumulus and he keeps watch over his people.
With "Colligite fragmenta: A Neglected Tumulus for Joannes Ludovicus Vives (1492-1540)," Jeanine De Landtsheer and Marcus De Schepper bring Professor Fantazzi a very special gift: a manuscript in Berlin containing fifteen funerary poems for Vives, of which seven have not been published before.
Just some of the discoveries to provide evidence of the park's past include flint arrowheads, Roman coins, prehistoric burnt mounds, an ancient well, ancient tumulus, earthworks of an ancient encampment and part of a Roman Road.
Sometime during this period, the Calder Stones were quarried locally to make a passage grave covered by an earth mound or tumulus.
At around 5.25pm on Saturday, a man spoke to paramedics attending an incident in Tumulus Avenue in Walker, telling them his daughter had accidentally drunk a substance from a bottle in a park nearby.
The Neolithic monument was built around 4800BC and classified as a tumulus (a type of grave) in 1850.