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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Commercial satellites can now identify objects as small as a few dozen centimeters wide. That makes it possible to recognize and count burial mounds in Darfur graveyards — and analyze change ...