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burial mound
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  • Aerial view of the moidams in Charaideo, Assam, in the foothills of the Patkai Range, in northeast India
    moidams of the Ahom dynasty

    These burial mounds, called moidams in the local language (in Tai, the traditional Ahom language, phrang-mai meaning “to bury” and dam meaning “the spirit of the dead”), are hemispherical funerary structures that hold the remains of Ahom royals and nobility, along with their personal belongings and finery.

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    These burial mounds, called moidams in the local language (in Tai, the traditional Ahom language, phrang-mai meaning “to bury” and dam meaning “the spirit of the dead”), are hemispherical funerary structures that hold the remains of Ahom royals and nobility, along with their personal belongings and finery.

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