Talk:Tell (archaeology)

The external link tells less than the article itself. Delete? --Yak 16:30, Mar 16, 2004 (UTC)

I'm rather doubtful about the claim that the Bulgarian word for a tell is 'mogila'. In Russian (closely related) it simply means 'grave'. --Smack 21:55, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)

If you look in a dictionary, it will tell you that mogila is hill or barrow, and of course it is used for barrows as well. You got archaeological sites that are called Mogila, sometimes differentiated as ????????? ??????, selischtschata mogila, like Karanovo (????????? ?????? ?? ?. ????????). The word tell' is used as well (Tell' Poljanitza), but mainly by archaeologists. Sorry, don't know how to get Bulgarian on this page, you can find examples on http://www.clio.uni-sofia.bg/spec/archeo/arheo_404.html, for example. What is Tell in Russian, by the way? --Yak 19:10, Mar 30, 2004 (UTC)

There is no "magura" in Romanian. It's "măgură" - hill, or "măgura" -- the hill. In Albanian, I think it's "magullë", can anyone confirm? [Dan] 23:13, 13 Aug 2005 (UTC)

A different tell

Isn't there a tell (similar to the tell in poker) in martial arts? 128.6.175.60 20:49, 20 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There also is a Wilhelm Tell in literature, maybe there should be a link for disambiguation or something.. --89.51.85.27 14:08, 5 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've created Tell (disambiguation) to record other uses of the word. --G Rutter 16:54, 5 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tel and Tumulus

I added a link to he:תל but all the interwikis there link to Tumulus in various languages. DVD+ R/W 20:26, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It seems like someone on the Hebrew wiki has made a mistake then- as our articles make clear tumuli are grave mounds and tells are settlement remains. --G Rutter 23:06, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]