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Burial mounds raised over the dead.
🇳🇴 Norway · Tumulus
Viking Age (Early, c.900–910 CE) · Norwegian Viking (Viken petty kingdom)
The Tune ship (c.900 CE, built c.910 burial) is a Viking Age karve longship, 18.7 m surviving (originally ~22 m), broad and fast, found in 1867 on the Båthaugen mound on Rolvsøy island in the former…
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Tumulus
Late Bronze to Xiongnu Early Iron · Slab Grave / Xiongnu
30 Slab Grave to Xiongnu re-used kurgans (1300 BCE–150 CE) — Selenge River terrace with Han lacquer.
🇯🇵 Japan · Tumulus
Early Kofun 250–300 CE (transition Yayoi→Kofun) · Yayoi–Early Kofun — Makimuku/Yamato nucleus (Kinai)
Makimuku Keyhole Kofun — Makimuku Kofun cluster's keyhole trio at Miyama foothills 3 km south Sakurai, earliest keyhole zenpo-koen (late 3rd c CE) defining Yamato Kofun genesis before Hashihaka…
🇯🇵 Japan · Tumulus
Kofun Middle–Late 350–550 CE (Northern Kyushu–Genkai) · Northern Kyushu Kofun (Genkai–Itoshima)
Genkai coast 55 m keyhole (350–550 CE) at Iwakura hill Fukuoka — corridor with Sue ware, iron armor and haniwa house model bridging Yayoi to Yamato.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan
Early Saka (Saka Tigraxauda) · Saka Tigraxauda (Almaty Saka)
Boralday west: 7 Saka mounds 45–72 m extending park 4 km toward Almaty plain.
🇯🇵 Japan · Tumulus
Yayoi late 3rd c → Kofun 4th–6th c CE · Yayoi–Kofun transition — Suo Bay Kitakyushu
Ushivika Kofun Cluster — late Yayoi to Kofun burial cluster (3rd–6th c CE, 11 mounds) on Suo Bay terrace at Kanda, north Kyushu, surveyed 1970s–90s.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan
Early Saka Tasmola (6th–5th c. BCE) · Tasmola culture
Besoba terrace satellite: 32-m Tasmola kurgan 340 m south of steppe pyramid mausoleum, Karaganda.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Tumulus
Late Numidian–Mauretanian (25 BCE–23 CE) · Berber Mauretanian / Hellenistic Roman
Royal Mausoleum of Mauretania (Kbour er Roumia) is the 32 m high Numidian–Mauretanian royal tomb 32 km W of Algiers on Sahel ridge 261 m with 60 columns (Ionic below, Doric above) and 4 false doors.
🇺🇸 United States · Tumulus
Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (2500–500 BCE) · Hallstatt / Early Iron Age; Hopewell
Marksville — Precht Mound West Embankment in Louisiana, Avoyelles Parish, Marksville, United States is a Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (2500–500 BCE) tumulu…
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan
Saka (550–400 BCE) · Saka Tigrakhauda / Semirechye Saka
Outlier mound 1.2 km south of Besshatyr core at Shylbyr Gorge mouth (670 m), south sentinel of Besshatyr necropolis.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Megalith
Bronze Age (regional) · Bronze Age
Inner Teotihuacan Village B — Teotihuacan (56-36) at Teotihuacan, Mexico is a Bronze Age (regional) megalithic of the Bronze Age tradition, built c. 3000 BCE for village and associated settlement.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Tumulus
Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (2500–500 BCE) · Hallstatt / Early Iron Age
Cessa Mound — Ancillary Embankment North (Mauretania) in Adrar, Chinguetti, Cessa, Mauritania is a Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (2500–500 BCE) tumulus attr…
🇯🇵 Japan · Tumulus
Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (2500–500 BCE) · Hallstatt / Early Iron Age
Takamatsuzuka Tumulus — Buried Chamber North (Asuka, Japan) in Nara, Asuka, Takamatsuzuka, Japan is a Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (2500–500 BCE) tumulus a…
🇸🇩 Sudan · Tumulus
Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (2500–500 BCE) · Hallstatt / Early Iron Age
Jebel Moya — Tumulus Field Ancillary Mound Superstructure in Sennar, Jebel Moya, Sudan is a Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (2500–500 BCE) tumulus attributed …
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Atlantic Breton / Loire Neolithic (Castellic / Chasséen contact)
Double passage tumulus near Saint-Nazaire — two parallel graves (11 m and 9 m) under one 28 m mound, c.4300 BCE.
🇧🇯 Benin · Tumulus
Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (2500–500 BCE) · Hallstatt / Early Iron Age
Tounouna — Stepped Tumulus (Borgu, Benin) in Borgou, Tounouna, Benin is a Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (2500–500 BCE) tumulus attributed to Hallstatt / Ear…
🇵🇪 Peru · Megalith
Bronze Age (regional) · Bronze Age
Outer Lima Platform Inner — Lima (56-14) at Lima, Peru is a Bronze Age (regional) megalithic of the Bronze Age tradition, built c. 800 CE for platform and associated settlement.
🇩🇪 Germany · Tumulus
Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (2500–500 BCE) · Hallstatt / Early Iron Age
Glauberg — Princely Grave Annex (Keltenwelt) in Hesse, Wetteraukreis, Glauburg, Germany is a Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (2500–500 BCE) tumulus attributed…
🇮🇹 Italy · Tumulus
Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (2500–500 BCE) · Hallstatt / Early Iron Age
Thapsos — North Cist Grave Field (Priolo) in Sicily, Priolo Gargallo, Italy is a Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (2500–500 BCE) tumulus attributed to Hallstat…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tumulus
Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (2500–500 BCE) · Hallstatt / Early Iron Age
Gordion — Citadel Gate South (Midas Mound) in Ankara, Polatlı, Gordion, Turkey is a Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (2500–500 BCE) tumulus attributed to Halls…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Archaeological wonder
Early Phrygian Iron Age (~1200–700 BCE; Midas tumulus ~740 BCE) · Phrygian (Balkan–Anatolian)
Phrygian capital at the Sangarius bend where Rodney Young's Penn excavations revealed a burnt 800 BCE citadel with polished pebble mosaics – the oldest known – and the great Tumulus MM: 53-m high and…
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan
Tasmola to Sarmatian Transition · Tasmola → Sarmatian
Korgantas east: 28-m Tasmola–Sarmatian transitional kurgan 3 km east of type site, Karaganda.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Megalith
Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (~4000–3000 BCE) · Sinai pastoralist (Nawamis culture, Timnian)
Fields of roughly 100 dry-stone beehive tombs 2–5 m diameter on the high Sinai plateau between Ein Khudra and Wadi Watir, each a corbelled cairn with single entrance facing west.
🇵🇪 Peru · Tumulus
Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) · Chalcolithic
Low Burial Mound in Ancash, Peru is a Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) tumulus attributed to Chalcolithic culture.
