In process of time the word tumulus was in great measure looked upon as a tomb; and tumulo signified to bury. From Wordnik.com. [A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.)] Reference
Not far from his house is an astonishing modern "tumulus," or mound of hewn and squared stones. From Wordnik.com. [Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888)] Reference
The tumulus of Tomb 17 glows in the morning light. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Nubian Cemetery Week 5, Part 1] Reference
On the N. margin are a tumulus and an ancient camp. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
Entomb'd in tumulus, enjoys a calm and peerless rest. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 342, November 22, 1828] Reference
A schematic drawing of a typical Nubian C-Group tumulus. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Nubians at Hierakonpolis] Reference
The well-built of brick tumulus was only the first part. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Nubian Cemetery Week 5, Part 1] Reference
This tumulus is over 330 feet long and about 60 feet wide. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter] Reference
There are, of course, various modifications of this tumulus. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
The elephants tilling the tumulus acted in the same manner. 3. From Wordnik.com. [Lunheng] Reference
This tumulus, in an ancient deed, is called the Pilgrim's Low. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 381, July 18, 1829] Reference
Tomb 22, left, and the remnants of its brick and stone tumulus. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Nubian Cemetery Week 5, Part 1] Reference
When you approach the building, it looks like an ancient hill, a tumulus. From Wordnik.com. [Address at the official opening of the Maropeng Visitor Centre] Reference
The earliest tomb was the tumulus or mound of earth, heaped over the dead. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
In the centre was a hillock or tumulus, surmounted by a scorched hawthorn. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]
Ancient Danish skull from a tumulus at Borreby: one-third of the natural size. From Wordnik.com. [Essays] Reference
Baziotopoulou thinks a tumulus crowning the shaft may have contained 150 people. From Wordnik.com. [Plague Victims Found: Mass Burial in Athens] Reference
The tumulus may be considered as the most simple and the most ancient form of sepulture. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
The tomb may have been vaulted something like this, but we have no evidence of a tumulus. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Nubian Cemetery Week 2] Reference
Clearly this tumulus had belonged to someone who had been well loved or respected in life. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Nubian Cemetery Week 5, Part 1] Reference
The most famous is the Saint-Michel tumulus, 375 feet long, 150 feet wide, and 30 feet high. From Wordnik.com. [Before the Pyramids...] Reference
Prince's Tower, erected on an artificial mound or tumulus, and embowered in a grove of fine trees. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 396, October 31, 1829] Reference
A barrow or tumulus is about fifteen to twenty feet high and seventy to a hundred feet in diameter. From Wordnik.com. ["The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders] Reference
I have always thought that the tumulus in your field might yield some interesting archaeological find. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 18, 1919] Reference
We walked to the Mont St. Michel, a tumulus of stones with sepulchral dolmen, opened in 1862, but now closed. From Wordnik.com. [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference
The Montagne de la Fée is a galgal or tumulus of elliptic form, about thirty feet high, formed of dry stones. From Wordnik.com. [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference
They were not natural features, as we originally thought, but sit on building debris from the tumulus construction. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Nubian Cemetery Week 5, Part 1] Reference
It was with this feeling that I visited one of the most ancient places of worship in Ireland, the tumulus at Newgrange. From Wordnik.com. [Humanly Speaking] Reference
At the end of 4,000 BC a tumulus culture was established in the area connected with the wave of migrations from eastern Asia. From Wordnik.com. [Western Caucasus, Russian Federation] Reference
The Slavonians, however, had the habit, on such occasions, of sacrificing a horse over the tumulus or barrow of the departed brave. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
The Tower of Bala (some 30 ft. high by 50 diameter) is a tumulus or "moat-hill," formerly thought to mark the site of a Roman camp. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
The mound or tumulus was in all likelihood a moot-hill, where justice was dispensed and the chieftains of the district were elected. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference
The old ruined castle looked down upon him from its curiously formed, tumulus-looking elevation, as he stopped before a neat farm-house. From Wordnik.com. [Gladys, the Reaper] Reference
"Allow me," said Mr. Raleigh, taking her plate and bringing it back directly with a wafery slice of bread and a quaking tumulus of jelly. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860] Reference
The curving undulations of the chalk have many a hut circle and tumulus to tell of the fierce life that once peopled these solitary wastes. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter] Reference
In another a flock of vultures is feeding on the bodies of the fallen enemy; in a third a tumulus is being heaped up over those who had been slain on the side of Lagash. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
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