Toumba
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This article is about a type of archaeological site. For the Thessaloniki quarter see Toumba (Thessaloniki). For other uses, see Toumba (disambiguation).
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In archaeology the term Toumba stands for mounds covering Bronze and early Iron Age settlements in Greece. At first they were considered as Grave hills, hence the name that derived from the word Tomb. However excavations showed that they are not tombs but structures like settlements, religious centers, or homes located at different depths depending on their date of use, like tells.
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