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tumulus
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amas recouvrant une sépulture
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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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- grave field
- Has part
- megalith
- Image
- Glauburg Keltenwelt am Glauberg (Grabhügel).jpg
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- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- Commons category
- Tumuli
- topic's main category
- Category:Tumuli
- OpenStreetMap tag
- tomb=tumulus
- partially coincident with
- burial mound
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Un tumulus désigne, en archéologie, une éminence artificielle, de forme diverse, recouvrant une sépulture. Il existe des tumulus sur tous les continents où la civilisation humaine s'est développée. Leur architecture et leur période de construction varient selon les civilisations ou cultures qui les ont construits. Au Néolithique, le tumulus est un élément à part entière de l'architecture funéraire mégalithique.
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