The Circular Mound Altar (Chinese: 圜丘坛; Chinese: Huánqiū Tán) is an outdoor empty circular platform on three levels of marble stones, located in Beijing...

support the dome. The Circular Mound Altar (圜丘坛) is the altar proper, located south of the Imperial Vault of Heaven. It is an empty circular platform on three...

echoes elevated altars where Chinese emperors practiced official rites, such as the Circular Mound Altar at the Temple of Heaven, the Altar and the Home...

as circular mounds, square mounds, ancestral temples, etc. Later, it evolved into the creation and construction of Jongmyo (shrine) around the mounds as...

2399. The center of the square draws on the design concept of the circular mound altar of the Temple of Heaven in Beijing. It is paved with 999 pieces of...

Region Sai Van Bridge Ruins of St. Paul's 46 Beijing City Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests of Temple of Heaven Circular Mound Altar of Temple of Heaven...

(being on the uppermost level of Mound A). Its size was roughly 9 meters by 4 meters with an altar and adjacent circular offering table on the northeast...

a shaft dug into center of the mound an undisturbed filling was found at a depth of 4.3 m the remains of a brick altar 1 m high; it has previously been...

Old, had died in 958, and had been buried in a mound with many goods, after the pagan practice. The mound itself was from c. 500 BCE, but Harald had it...

who built the mounds and left the majority of artifacts, buried their dead with their bodies tightly flexed in hexagonal and circular stone box graves...

circular elevation of stone and earth." (Later to be described by contemporary surveyors as a "small stone mound".) They believed it to be an altar....

wolf, as Lycaon had been after sacrificing a child. The altar of Zeus consists of a great mound of ashes with a retaining wall. It was said that no shadows...

baptistery and serves to register the parishioners. There are five large, ornate altars, a sacristy, a choir, a choir area, a corridor and a capitulary room. Fourteen...

exploration work is ongoing, thus far several structures have been found: A circular altar was found, measuring over six meters in diameter. This complex has the...

name means 'the mound in the dark grove'. It was archaeologically excavated between 1928 and 1929. Visitors can get inside the mound through a stone passage...

presented on the altar, would be burnt. Beyond the altar building, a final gate leads out of the temple area to the wall of the tomb mound itself. The underground...

Indus Valley Civilization. Kalibangan is distinguished by its unique fire altars and "world's earliest attested ploughed field". It is around 2900 BC that...

in the temple walls and especially around the sacred well. A double circular altar and an offering table stood in the center of the shrine. To the south...

sculpture was found in it. This is supported by the association with the circular altar and the presence of a stone called a temalacatl found in the rubble...

and wedge-shaped), and they may be covered with an earthen mound (or "tumulus") or rock mound (or "cairn"). Archeologist T. Douglas Price argues that the...

Earthworks Great Circle Earthworks Hopeton Earthworks Mound City High Bank Works Hopewell Mound Group Seip Earthworks Fort Ancient Locations of the eight...

Thracian altar consisted of a circular clay structure which had been used since the Bronze Age. These later gave rise to decorated square altars during...

Hesse excavated it. The mound (mound 1) originally had a diameter of nearly 50 m and a height of 6 m. It was surrounded by a circular ditch 10 m wide. At...

other altars. From ancient writers it is clear that there was greenery, probably trees, growing on top of the upper parts, of an artificial mound or dome...

ruined megalithic tomb, an ogham stone, an earthen mound, a holy well, and a cross-inscribed stone altar. When the water table is high enough, the water...

The Kerma graves are distinct. They are circular pits covered with white or black pebbles in a circular mound. Four huge graves in the southern part of...

Preclassic. Stela 68 was found at the base of Mound 61A near to a broken altar. Structure 61 and its associated mounds may have been used to control access to...

BC). Near the mound are several standing stones, and a large limestone slab, now at the foot of the mound, may have served as an altar." The most prolific...

anethiken". Among the significant findings include the built-square marble altar dedicated to Hestia Isthmus of classical times and which is testimony to...

of Aga Matei (the future Matei Basarab). The cross stands on a small circular mound, where the bones of Leon Tomșa's troops are buried, as well as those...