Funerary Structures
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Inside Kincaid Mounds: Where Modern Archaeology Began
From 1934, Kincaid Mounds taught America how to dig. Explore its 19 Mississippian platform mounds, 141-acre palisade and the lost Ohio River…
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Tianshui Tomb: Inside a Sogdian Official’s Stone Couch
Discovered in 1982, the Tianshui tomb preserves a Sogdian official’s stone funerary couch carved with Zoroastrian fire-altar scenes in Sui China. Explore…
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Inside the Tomb of Li Dan: A Byzantine Coin in Xi’an
In 564 CE the Tomb of Li Dan buried a Gandharan Brahmin beside a Byzantine gold coin in Xi’an — discover how…
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Inside Son Real: Mallorca’s Necropolis of 143 Tombs
With 143 tombs holding the remains of about 425 people, the Necropolis of Son Real is Mallorca’s Iron Age town of the…
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Tomb of An Bei: Inside a Looted Sogdian Funerary Couch
Looted in 2006, the Tomb of An Bei is a 589 CE Sogdian funerary couch whose epitaph called its owner ‘no different…
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Inside Angel Mounds: Indiana’s Mississippian River City
Built around AD 1100, Angel Mounds was a 1,000-resident Mississippian town on the Ohio River where Glenn Black unearthed 2.5 million artifacts.…