[Russ. курганъ kurga·n barrow, tumulus; of Tartar origin.] A prehistoric sepulchral tumulus or barrow in Russia and Tartary.
1889. J. Abercromby, E. Caucasus, 218. I remarked two green basins…. They had been found in a kurgan.
1890. Huxley, in 19th Cent., 769. These Tschudish kurgans abound in copper and gold articles … but contain neither bronze nor iron.
