The
Beehive Tombs
The
Excavations at Mycenae
The
Trojan War
Homer
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Edward
Dowdell, 1834 drawing of the interior of what
Schliemann called the Treasury of Atreus, after
a king mentioned by Homer in The
Iliad
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Mycenaeans began to use tholos tombs, also called beehive
because of their shape, around 1500 BCE. These were large chambers
cut into the hillside. The approach to the tomb was a long unroofed
passage cut horizontally into the hillside. The stones used
to line the tomb were large limestones. The scale of these tombs
is enormous. The lintel at the entrance of one of the tombs
weighs over 100 tons. |
Plan
E, “Façade, Plan, and Section of the Treaury
Near the Lion's Gate,” Mycenae by Dr. Henry Schliemann,
London 1880. |
the
entrance to the tomb of Atreus
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