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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tumuli
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In Florida, the Heritage Monitoring Scouts visit archaeological sites, including cemeteries, forts and mills, to record any impacts after extreme weather events.—
Yasemin Saplakoglu,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025 -
But there’s a lot more to visit there than just battlefields and cemeteries.—
Jim Clash,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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Taken from burial mounds in southeast Minnesota, the remains had been held by Minnesota institutions for many decades.—
Melissa Olson,
Twin Cities,
14 Sep. 2025
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These enormous mounds of debris left over from the feasts contained thousands of bones.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Sep. 2025
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Wednesday Pays a Visit to Her Grandmama Hester Frump manages funeral homes and graveyards.—
Dessi Gomez,
Deadline,
2 Sep. 2025
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The company is surveying about 5,000 acres near Big Pond and Tuckahoe roads to see what the best fit would be and avoid areas like Beasley Cemetery and smaller private graveyards, McHugh said.—
Sarah Henry,
The Courier-Journal,
18 Aug. 2025
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The ancient tombs, along with the area’s previous finds, suggest this part of Manduria served as a structured cemetery-like space in ancient times.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
9 Sep. 2025
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Before the most recent excavation, archaeologists had found 17 of these tombs.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Tumuli.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tumuli. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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