Many people assume that all Indian mounds are burial mounds ... They uncovered the remains of an indigenous ancestor along with a small stone sculpture of a man or a woman wearing a bear's ...

The Jelling burial mounds and one of the runic stones are striking ... Denmark's ornament". A small simple church of whitewashed stone is on the site of at least three earlier wooden churches, all of ...

Marked on the Ordnance Survey map with the familiar gothic italic ‘tumulus’ or ‘tumuli’, they are some of about 20,000 sites of burial ... stone chambers that held the remains of up to 50 people.

Whittlesey investigated several apparently Adena mounds within the Cuyahoga Valley east of Tinker's Creek, and recovered a tubular stone pipe ... reoccupied as small fishing camps. Throughout this ...

located in Le Flore County just seven miles from the small town of Spiro, Oklahoma. Twelve mounds were discovered across 150 acres for the public to explore, including preserved artifacts inside ...

Many ancient burial mounds have been destroyed over the past centuries. A group of Madison residents who are hoping the state can intervene in the city’s plans to alter the landscape of Vilas ...

The largest of the ship-shaped stone setting graves identified at the Tvååker site measures more than 160 feet in length, according to Nordin. Ship-shaped mounds from the Viking Age are burial ...

As it turns out, Increase Lapham, the prominent civil engineer who helped transform Milwaukee from a small village into ... it may be home to ancient burial mounds, said Sara Tomlin, executive ...

are a mound burial system that served as a resting place for Ahom kings and queens. They were constructed by providing an earth cover over a hollow vault made of bricks, stone or earth.

Long or round, large or small, prehistoric tumuli dot the countryside. Vicky Liddell explores the history, folklore and literary influence of burial ... stone chambers that held the remains of up to ...