Workmen at once began to heap up an immense tumulus over the vault; and since no human foot is allowed to tread above an Emperor, the workmen had to be "purified" by a peculiar .
The tumulus is still there, looming above the flat plain, a beacon and a challenge for China's archaeologists, a possible trove of treasures out-dazzling even those on exhibit .
The boots one sees protruding from this tumulus of Orvis-catalogue kitsch are poor dead Thoreau's.
Thabo Mbeki in SABC News When you approach the building, it looks like an ancient hill, a tumulus. You journey on an underground lake and you are transported back to the beginning of time,Mbeki said, describing the centre.