Sentence examples for grave mound over from inspiring English sources

(The achievement was such that the Greeks, breaking with their tradition of taking their dead back to their cities, buried them on the battlefield and erected a grave mound over the spot. It can still be seen today).

(The achievement was such that the Greeks, breaking with their tradition of taking their dead back to their cities, buried them on the battlefield and erected a grave mound over the spot. It can still be seen today). Ten years later, Darius' son Xerxes returned to Greece, having taken over the preparations for an even vaster invasion.

Armed with a compass, maps and divining rods, they gingerly walk around the grave mounds, scan the lay of the surrounding hills with a knowing nod, and ruminate over the relationship between the site and the destiny of the families.

This paper focuses on one type of archaeological site, Bronze and Iron Age grave mounds.

Nearby are the two big tumuli, or grave mounds, of Dowth and Knowth.

These zones covered ca. 12% of the forested areas of the region yet captured 94% of the registered grave mounds.

Boxes of incense had been spent and discarded, and palm fronds were stuck into the dirt of grave mounds.

The group of cultural remains included charcoal kilns, charcoal pits, hollow-roads, various pits, house foundations, tar kilns, grave mounds and pit-falls.

Grave mounds at Al-ʿAyn have tombs with figures of animals and people carved from stone and dating to about 2700 bce.

Beginning in the 1940s in Ukraine, south Russia, Caucasia and Central Asia, archaeologists have uncovered grave mounds — called kurgans — containing human remains and artifacts of the steppe cultures.

The contents of a royal tumulus (an artificial hillock or mound over a grave) burial at Gordium testify to the competence of Phrygian craftsmanship in other materials, including glass.