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The Mycenaeans: Their Burials
Another central aspect of Mycenaean material culture were their cyclopean tombs. Using their famed masonry style they built spectacular burial chambers for the nobility. Earlier kings and nobles were buried in the so-called two grave circles at Mycenae, which were areas of shaft graves surrounded by a low limestone wall. Later nobles were buried in large and elaborately decorated beehive-shaped buildings, called tholos tombs. Sometimes the bodies were buried in a sitting position, or…
