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tumulus
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
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tumulus an ancient burial mound; a barrow. Recorded from late Middle English, the word is from Latin, and is related to
tumere ‘to swell’.
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Reconstructing the prehistoric burial tumulus of Lofkend in Albania.
Magazine article from: Antiquity; 9/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Landscape, memory and tumuli One of the most prominent...xxi, 1-27), is the tumulus. Unlike the tell of...magoula of nearby Greece, tumuli are mounds containing...their prominence, burial tumuli are monuments in every...the construction of a tumulus in a landscape transforms...
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Kestrel Energy Announces Mobilization of Drilling Rig To Tumuli-1 Well Location, PPL 213, Papua New Guinea Fold Belt.
PR Newswire; 3/15/1999; 700 words
; ...PPL 157 and is currently being moved to the Tumuli-1 location in PPL 213 (formerly PPL 106...associated equipment and services to the Tumuli-1 location. The anticipated spud date for Tumuli-1 on this basis is late in the second week...
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Kestrel Energy Announces Drilling Commencement of Tumuli Prospect in Permit PPL 213, Papua New Guinea Fold Belt.
PR Newswire; 4/9/1999; 646 words
; ...Belt, has commenced drilling of the Tumuli Prospect. Kestrel holds a 2.04% interest in the prospect. The Tumuli-1 well is located in the eastern portion...seismically defined surface anticline, the Tumuli Anticline, that lies on the highly prospective...
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Tumulus.(Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 1/1/2000; 700+ words
; Volker Braun. Tumulus. Frankfurt a.M. Suhrkamp. 1999...Scham vom Kapitalismus zu sprechen." Tumulus is organized into three sections, wherein...and is titled "Der Stoff zum Leben 4: tumulus." The first part of that title is familiar...
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Trans-Orient Petroleum Ltd. Announces Tumuli-1 Update.
PR Newswire; 5/17/1999; 584 words
; ...Bulletin Board: TEPUF) advises that the Tumuli-1 well in PPL 213, in the western highlands...venture will now interpret the results of Tumuli-1 and review all exploration possibilities...further exploration, not excluding the Tumuli structure itself. Further information...
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Trans-Orient Petroleum Ltd. - Update on Tumuli-1 Well (Pep 213, Trans-Orient Interest 5%).
PR Newswire; 5/6/1999; 465 words
; ...Trans-Orient Petroleum (OTC Bulletin Board: TEPUF): The Tumuli-1 (Operator-Santos), currently being drilled on PEP 213...from the well suggests that a Toro objective is present on the Tumuli structure, but obtaining an accurate estimate of the actual...
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Tumuli Park.
Magazine article from: Calliope; 3/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...tomb mounds dot the area in and around the city of Kyongju. And, located in the city's historic center is Taenung-won ("Tumuli Park"), an area that has about 20 mounded tombs of Silla's kings, queens, princes, and other royal relatives. The finds...
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Ancestral Tumulus.(Poem)
Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life; 4/1/2006; ; 389 words
; Ancestral Tumulus Daggers, broadswords, halberds, battle-axes, shields, helmets, scabbard parts and buckles, spearheads, manacles, necklaces...
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Kestrel Energy Reports on Tumuli Prospect.
PR Newswire; 5/14/1999; 568 words
; ...KEST), an oil and gas exploration and production company, today announced that Barracuda Limited, the operator on the Tumuli prospect in PPL 213, Papua New Guinea Fold Belt, is attempting to free stuck pipe in the well at a depth of 2,026 meters...
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BOOK REVIEW: Tumulus.
Magazine article from: Creative Review; 2/1/2006; 414 words
; This beautifully presented book by new publisher invisible inc is a collection of work by British photographer John Miles. Containing 50 black-and-white photographs, the book is an introduction to a darkly funny and creepy world, where suburban and country life appears full of mystery, intrigue and
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tumulus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
tumulus , plural tumuli , in archaeology, a heap of earth or stones placed over a grave. The terms mound , barrow , or cairn are more common in modern usage.
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Tombs
Encyclopedia entry from: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
...ancient Greek and was first employed by Homer to describe a tumulus or mound raised over a body. By transference, tomb has come...landscape was through funerary structures. The barrows and tumuli of the Neolithic period in Europe (c. 4000 – 3000...
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stupa
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
stupa [Sanskrit,=mound], Buddhist monument in tumulus, or mound, form, often containing relics. The words tope and dagoba are synonymous, though the latter properly refers only...
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Lubbock, Sir John (Lord Avebury)
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...record. Between 1860 and 1864, he traveled to the Somme Valley and the Dordogne Caves, the Swiss lake village sites, and the tumuli, kitchen middens, and museums of Denmark. He went over the ground with the investigators, studied the finds, and read the...
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gallery
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...also serving as a pedestrian way from street to street. 4. Passage leading to a burial chamber ( gallery-grave ) within a tumulus , the equivalent of the dromos . 5. Tribune over the aisles in a large church above the nave arcade . 6. Scaffold or extra...
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