Tumuli

Then, plainly visible on both sides of the highway, the great age of the world seems to be revealed with sudden poignancy: we pass the famous burial mounds, the largest prehistoric cemetery in the world, a virtual city of dead people dating back to 3000 B.C. Over 150,000 people were buried here in a vast field of mudpie-like mounds called tumuli, stretching far as the eye can see. ❋ Richard Bangs (2011)

Graves are overlooked by the brown and gold of bracken and gorse, extending downhill towards emerald green fields from the hilltop sites of prehistoric tumuli, hut circles and quoits (chamber tombs). ❋ Virginia Spiers (2010)

Cloud shadows scud across the splashy and drier ground where prehistoric circles, tumuli, cairns and reaves subside into the rough vegetation and where attention focuses on the few gnarled and wind-pruned hawthorns. ❋ Unknown (2011)

After high school, Rich spent a year at a boarding school in Marlborough, England, just north of Stonehenge, because the school had a 10-inch refracting telescope—a larger version of the kind Galileo had used to discover that the Milky Way was full of stars—that was out on the downs, surrounded by Neolithic tumuli. ❋ Ann Finkbeiner (2010)

See also Drangagil Neskaupstaður's disaster tumuli. ❋ Unknown (2008)

(An amphitheater with crescentic tumuli as seatings, by Hargreaves Associates.) ❋ Unknown (2008)

Much of what they find on the way is marked on the map, whose symbols for roads, railways, telephone boxes, tumuli, and so on and on, turn to reality along the way. ❋ Unknown (2008)

My sentence here, and it's one that you can sort of get the meaning of, but it was about the sage brush turning thriving homes in tumuli T-U-M-U-L-I. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But tumuli is the plural of tumulus, and those are those, you know, if you go to Ireland, for example, you see those humps, those mounds, the burial mounds or Indian mounds - usually burial sites - those are tumuli. ❋ Unknown (2010)

These terracotta figurines were placed around the tumuli of Japanese emperors between the third and seventh centuries A.D. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The most impressive historical monuments in the area are Pazyryk tumuli, burial mounds of tribal leaders, belonging to the 5th century BC. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Starting from the south and turning clockwise : two gently drooping cedars, historic McCartney House (family home of General Wolfe of Quebec), the graceful spire of a local church, glimpses of Clive's beloved Thames and, beyond, the City and Docklands skyline, then a Henry Moore statue just 50 yards away, the Royal Observatory (and the invisible Greenwich Meridian at 0° longitude), several Anglo-Saxon tumuli, and an avenue of veteran sweet chestnuts. ❋ M (2009)

But look to the right of the green arrow, and you'll see a series of horseshoe-shaped tumuli, each one measuring at least 100 feet wide, bisected at the middle, and paired with a linear mound in the front/back. ❋ Unknown (2007)