6 sentences with 'mounds'
Example sentences and phrases with the word mounds and other words derived from it.
• « Mesopotamian cities always had walls, some of which were 30 feet high and 60 feet wide, essentially huge mounds of earth reinforced with bricks. »
• « The burial mound is not isolated, but is located among other burial mounds in a field of corn and mandarin oranges. »
• « In 1381, Timur Lenk, also called Tamerlane, turned 2,000 prisoners into human burial mounds. With another 3,000, still alive, he made a wall, using their blood for the mixture, in Sabzawar. In Cirith, he turned 3,000 human heads into minarets. »
• « Many of the mounds that were opened by archaeologists contained artwork and other artefacts indicating that their society was socially stratified. »
• « The city also contained 120 earthen mounds or pyramids, each of which dominated a particular neighbourhood and each of which was home to a leader who exercised authority over the surrounding area. The largest mound covered 15 acres. »