6 sentences with 'mounds'

Example sentences and phrases with the word mounds and other words derived from it.


« What remains of their culture today are huge burial mounds and earthworks. »
« The burial mound is not isolated, but is located among other burial mounds in a field of corn and mandarin oranges. »
« Mesopotamian cities always had walls, some of which were 30 feet high and 60 feet wide, essentially huge mounds of earth reinforced with bricks. »
« 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. »
« 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. »

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