Noun:

செயற்கையாக உண்டு பண்ணப்பட்ட மேடை, பலாத்காரமான, மேடு,

tumuli's Usage Examples:

During the excavations on Chatham Hill after 1758 a number of tumuli containing human remains, pottery, coins, 'c.

Prehistoric tumuli are found abundantly in almost all parts of Europe and Asia from Britain to Japan.

the Roman province of Africa comprised the whole of the region between the mouth of the Ampsaga (Wad Rummel, Wad el Kebir) on the west, and the two tumuli called the altars of the Philaeni, the immutable boundary between Tripolitana and Cyrenaica, on the east (Tissot ii.

The shores of all the lakes which filled the depressions during the Lacustrine period abound in remains dating from the Neolithic Stone period; and numberless kurgans (tumuli), furnaces and so on bear witness to a much denser population than the present.

In various places throughout the county may be seen the ruins of several ancient castles, Danish raths or encampments, and tumuli, in the last of which urns and stone coffins have sometimes been found.

Two tumuli were dug in the necropolis of Bin Tepe without result.

All its neighbourhood is strewn with kurgans (tumuli).

The obsequies of Achilles, as described in the Odyssey, were also celebrated with details which are strikingly similar to those observed in tumuli both of the Bronze and Iron Ages.

The tombs of the kings were in the land of Gerrhus near the great bend of the Dnieper where the chief tumuli have been excavated.

Ancient tombs with fragments of vases have also been found, and there are cases which have been used as primitive tombs or dwellings, and a group of some fifty tumuli near Altamura.

This is considered the mildest and most salubrious place in Siberia, and is remarkable for certain tumuli (of the Li Kitai) and statues of men from seven to nine feet high, covered with hieroglyphics.

Early earthworks and tumuli are numerous in the locality.