The five distinct barrows represent some of the oldest architectural elements of their kind found on France’s Atlantic coast; the so-called Tumulus E is the oldest mound at the site, with its ...

Five giant seated limestone statues, identified by their inscriptions as deities, face outwards from the tumulus on the upper level of the east and west terraces. These are flanked by a pair of ...

The Sakurai Chausuyama tumulus in Sakurai, Nara Prefecture, dates from around the late third century. The site, 204 meters in length, is designated as a “historic site” by the central government.

The most important remains are the monumental palace, lavishly decorated with mosaics and painted stuccoes, and the burial ground with more than 300 tumuli, some of which date from the 11th century ...

Some were covered with earth while others were surrounded by stones to form a tumulus. Usually, these spaces had a stone slab that could be moved to seal them shut. As time went by, the category ...

In 1939 Brown resumed the dig and turned his attention to the largest barrow, known as tumulus one. During the excavation, he came across a section of hard earth stained with rust and containing ...

In fiscal 2022, the excavation of a protruding section on the northeastern side of the Tomio Maruyama Tumulus in Nara--one of Japan’s largest round burial mounds at 109 meters in diameter ...

The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Revue Archéologique 1ère Année, No. 2, 15 OCTOBRE 1844 AU 15... 1ère Année, No. 2, 15 OCTOBRE 1844 AU 15 MARS 1845 LES TUMULUS DE DJEBEL EL AKHDHAR, ...

But directly beneath them, they identified prehistoric burials believed to date back to 700 B.C. “We have found a number of tumulus burials from that period in this area but this is the first ...

The street name recalls an ancient tumulus, long since lost, that was known locally as ‘Fairies Cradle’ because of its supposed habitation by those mythical beings. It was described as a small ...

The Superintendence of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape (Sabap) for the provinces of Caserta and Benevento has presented ...