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Plymouth Burial Hill
Burial Hill Cemetery, Plymouth, MA.
The cemetery has been in use since the 1620s and is the final resting place of many Mayflower passengers and Plymouth Colony's first settlers.
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Painted Burial Chamber, Haskovo
A detail of a painted dromos and dome camera from a tumulus near Aleksandrovo village, Haskovo district, Bulgaria. The dromos has battle scenes while the burial chamber has a hunting scene, unfolded in a circle, and...
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Butte de Mort, Sioux Burial Ground, Upper Missouri
Butte de Mort, Sioux Burial Ground, Upper Missouri, oil on canvas by George Catlin, 1837-1839.
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.
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Upper Innisidgen Burial Chamber
This burial mound is found on the island of St. Mary's in the Isles of Scilly. This cairn is well-preserved with a substantial mound, a stone berk, and an intact inner chamber. Its precise date of construction is still...
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Urartian Burial Urn
This burial urn was discovered near the ancient Erebuni Fortress. It dates from the 8th century BCE and is made from baked clay. (Erebuni Historical and Archaeological Preserve, Yerevan, Armenia.)
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Burial of De Soto
Frieze depicting the burial of Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto in the Mississippi River in 1542.
Capitol Rotunda, Washington D.C.
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Native American House Burial
Native American house burial, illustration from page 175 of A Further Contribution to the Study of Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians by Dr. H. C. Yarrow, Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of Ethnology, 1881...
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Treasures from a Woman's Burial in Vani
Grave goods from the richest burial at Vani (located in the Imereti region of Georgia), dated to about 450 BCE. Grave 11, contained four bodies inside a wooden structure: a woman, distinguished by the richness...
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Rus Burial Mounds, Staraja Ladoga
Rus burial mounds dating to the 8-1oth century CE near Straraja Ladoga, Russia.
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Cherokee Burial Mound
Native American burial mound, associated with the Cherokee nation, in the Cherokee Boulevard median of Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. The plaque on the rock reads: This mound was constructed by Native Americans between A.D. 900-1100...