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Celtic Burial Mounds
Reconstructions of Celtic burial mounds dating to the La Tène period (5th to 1st century BCE). The mounds were surrounded by circular ditches of 0.6 metres and 1.2 metres. European Archaeological Park of Bliesbruck-Reinheim...
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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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Rus Burial Mounds, Staraja Ladoga
Rus burial mounds dating to the 8-1oth century CE near Straraja Ladoga, Russia.
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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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Burial Mound, Cahuachi
A burial mound at the Nazca site of Cahuachi, southern Peru. The 40 mounds at the site are built on natural hilltops using earth and adobe-brick retaining walls. The site was used for burials and religious ceremonies between...
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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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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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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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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.