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Tumulus (5226 bytes)
4: ...lus.JPG|thumb|300px|Noge-Ōtsuka [[Kofun]] '''tumulus''', [[Tokyo]], early [[5th century]].]]
5: ... can be found throughout much of the [[world]]. A tumulus composed largely or entirely of stones is usually...
62: [[fr:Tumulus]]

Tumulus culture (692 bytes)
1: ...t remained intact and were probably expanded. The Tumulus culture flourished without any disruption of loca...

Chamber tumulus (1422 bytes)
3: A '''Chamber Tumulus''' is a large [[megalith]]ic construct found in c...

Mounds (215 bytes)
4: * [[Tumulus]] (a mound or barrow)

Vergina (4553 bytes)
1: ...:ac.vergina1.jpg|frame|The entrance to the "Great Tumulus" Museum at Vergina]]
11: ... became convinced that a hill called the "Great [[Tumulus]]" (in Greek, Μεγαλ&#951...
15: ...1977]] Andronikos undertook a six-week dig at the Tumulus and found four buried chambers which he indentifi...
19: ...in a museum which has been built inside the Great Tumulus, and is one of the finest examples of modern muse...
21: ...te. The larnax and portraits are now in the Great Tumulus museum at Vergina. This story from the Greek news...

Funnelbeaker culture (2199 bytes)
5: ...ithic tombs of the era, that are called [[chamber tumulus]]es and dolmen.
7: ...of the years. A singe grave of the type [[chamber tumulus]] could contain the burials of up to a hundred in...

John Robert Mortimer (2480 bytes)
1: ... and was responsible for the excavation of many [[Tumulus|barrows]] in that area, including [[Duggleby Howe...
5: ...very of human remains during the quarrying of a [[Tumulus|barrow]] on [[Painsthorpe Wold]]. He visited the ...

Pitted-ware culture (1099 bytes)
3: ...reat [[megalithic]] structures known as [[chamber tumulus]]es. The culture is thought to have been more ori...

Oval barrow (1156 bytes)
1: ... to a elliptical type of [[prehistoric]] burial [[tumulus]].

Bank barrow (1034 bytes)
1: ...ank, ridge barrow, or ridge mound, is a type of [[tumulus]] first identified by [[O. G. S. Crawford|O.G.S. ...

Bala, Gwynedd (1222 bytes)
3: ... (30 ft. / 9m high by 50 ft. / 15m diameter) is a tumulus or "moat-hill", formerly thought to mark the site...

Frosta (1306 bytes)
25: ...s can be found in the [[parish]], together with [[Tumulus|burial mounds]] from [[Viking]] times.

Bell barrow (1476 bytes)
1: ...arrow''', or a '''bermed barrow''' is a type of [[tumulus]] identified as such by both [[John Aubrey]] and ...

Bowl barrow (1535 bytes)
1: ...'''turnp''' or '''rotunda grave''' is a type of [[tumulus]] first identified by [[John Thurman]].

Gordium (3772 bytes)
10: ...ts of his last dinner could be reconstructed. The tumulus also contained one of the oldest alphabetic inscr...

Tell (1963 bytes)
11: ...act that the phenomenon is easily confused with [[tumulus|burial mounds]]) in [[Greece]] and [[Macedonia]]....

Magatama (2000 bytes)
1: ... Japan. They are often found inhumed in mounded [[tumulus]] [[Grave (burial)|graves]] as [[Sacrifice|offeri...

Lerna (4668 bytes)
17: ...e Helladic period, shaft graves were cut into the tumulus of the House of Tiles, indicating that the signif...

Earthworks (engineering) (1769 bytes)
10: ...g ancient fortifications, but also [[henge]]s, [[tumulus|barrows]] and other [[tomb]]s.

Kofun (6245 bytes)
3: ...250s|250]] to A.D.[[538]]. A kofun is any tomb ([[tumulus]]) of this kind.
6: ...mulus.JPG|thumb|left|250px|Noge-Ōtsuka Kofun tumulus, [[Tokyo]], early [[5th century]].]]
17: ... of bronze mirror (5th-6th century). Eta-Funayama Tumulus, Kumamoto. Tokyo National Museum.]]

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