tumulus

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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

It's possible, he said, that when pyramid building came into fashion at Sedeinga it was combined with a local circle-building tradition called tumulus construction, resulting in pyramids with circles within them.

From Scientific American

Founded in neolithic times, as a tumulus overlooking the citadel attests, and known in antiquity as Amida, Diyarbakir is one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world.

From New York Times

How strange to be a watcher of vineyards upon the tumulus of Marathon!

From Project Gutenberg

A large mound of earth or stones over the remains of the dead; a tumulus.

From Project Gutenberg