tumulus

Also known as barrow, burial mound, kurgan, hügelgräber

thumb|upright=1.5|Tomb of King Alyattes at [[Bin Tepe in Lydia, modern Turkey, built c. 560 BC. It is one of the largest tumuli ever built, with a diameter of 360 meters and a height of 61 meters.]] thumb|The Royal Mounds of [[Gamla Uppsala in Sweden from the 5th and 6th centuries. Originally, the site had 2,000 to 3,000 tumuli, but due to quarrying and agriculture only 250 remain.]] thumb|La Cambe German war cemetery thumb|One of the Hallstatt culture–era tumuli in the Sulm valley necropolis thumb|Kasta Tomb|Kasta tumulus [[Amphipolis]]

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A tumulus is an ancient mound of earth or stone built over a burial site, often constructed for important figures like kings and used across many cultures and time periods. These structures matter to archaeologists and historians because they provide evidence of past civilizations, their burial practices, and the people they memorialized, though many have been lost to quarrying and agricultural development over the centuries.

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Etymology
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Australia
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North America
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A tumulus (: tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves. Tumuli are also known as barrows, burial mounds, mounds, howes, or in Siberia and Central Asia as kurgans, and may be found throughout much of the world. A cairn, which is a mound of stones built for various purposes, may also originally have been a tumulus.