tholos tomb
beehive tomb

Another 250 vases were found inside the tholos tomb.

There is no clear connection between these domestic, circular buildings and later tholos tombs.

Two Minoan cemeteries with tholos tombs are located near the village.

The circular setting of the Tholos tombs placed the dead in non-hierarchical patterns.

In Europe they include the Mycenean tholos tomb type.

A tholos tomb and cemetery of chamber tombs at nearby Dendra is associated with the site.

In this first Excavation, a small tholos tomb, a cult room and an outdoor altar were excavated.

The tribes would often replace old bones and rebury them outside of the Tholos tomb in order to lay the freshly dead to rest.

It is about 15 meters in diameter and one of several tholos tombs with corbelled domes.

Early Minoan tholos tombs and ossuaries have been excavated in the south part of the cemetery.

Over 200 chamber tombs and one tholos tomb have been found from the Late Minoan era.

The site contained four tombs; three tholos tombs and one rectangular tomb.

Possibly the idea of the tholos tomb was exported to Mycenae from Crete.

Appearing in tomb decorations, Mycenaean tholos tombs were shaped as beehives.

They may have come from the inner chamber of the tholos tomb known as the Treasury of Atreus.

Large Mycenaean tholos tombs that betokened a grander past, were often the site of hero-cults.

A potter's kiln, a building with four rooms and a Late Minoan tholos tomb have been excavated.

A Late Minoan tholos tomb has been discovered in the vicinity of Maleme.

Specifically, a Mycenaean tholos tomb has been found in the neighbouring municipality of Acharnai.

In 1925 Thompson discovered a tholos tomb that proved to be the burial place of the king and queen of Midea.

The palace, which had frescoed walls, and the great tholos tombs show the power of Orchomenos in Mycenaean times.

The tholos tombs of Mycenaean Greece.

In 1901, Valerios Stais discovered the tholos tomb on the hill of the Neolithic settlement.

The Minoan tribes that occupied Crete built and used the Tholos Tombs.

Ruins of Palaces built after the Tholos Tombs indicate an authoritative figure was introduced to the tribe.

I wished more than anything we could bury May in a beehive tomb.

Half a mile below the city is an immense Beehive tomb cut into the hillside and lined with stone blocks.

During the Bronze Age the corbelled arch came into use such as for beehive tombs.

Sometime around the late 19th century, a beehive tomb burial structure constructed from stone was discovered in Goura.

At times I could not prevent myself from lying flat on the ground, pretending I was inside one of those beehive tombs.

It's a beehive tomb.

A beehive tomb, characteristic of continental Mycenaean tombs, has been found on Mykonos.

You could die in a river, but maybe you could get reborn in it, too, like the beehive tombs August had told me about.

Similar Beehive tombs, called tholoi, exist in Crete and Northern Iraq.

The building is an unadorned closed round temple, surrounded by ten Tuscan columns, forming a Beehive tomb.

The site of Arkina, near the village of Arna, contains three beehive tombs and is still unexplored.

Ancient Thracian beehive tomb (3rd century AD)

After about 1500 BCE, beehive tombs became more widespread and are found in every part of the Mycenaean heartland.

The nuraghe is a complex nuraghe, of tholos (beehive tomb) typology, rather unusual in Gallura.

The cairn beehive tomb, is built from a mound of stones around a tholos, with an underlying corridor and vaulted chamber (or crypt).

The mainlanders Why were we so timid at Mycenae ten years ago when we came to draw conclusions from your discoveries in the beehive tombs?

The use of Beehive tombs on the Iberian peninsula and elsewhere around the Mediterranean, going back to 3000 BC, is also similar.

While these civilizations possessed writing and were capable of advanced engineering, including four-story palaces with drainage and beehive tombs, they left behind no mathematical documents.

The Mycenaeans buried their nobles in beehive tombs (tholoi), large circular burial chambers with a high vaulted roof and straight entry passage lined with stone.

The coastline area of Vila Real was inhabited by Megalithic tribes who constructed beehive tombs in the around Nora, near Cacela.

In the Chalcolithic period of the Iberian peninsula, beehive tombs appear among other innovative "megalithic" variants, since c. 3000 BCE.

The most famous is the Tomb of Agamemnon (the Treasury of Atreus), which is in the form of a Beehive tomb.

Corbelled beehive tombs over square chambers appear in Thrace, the Crimea, and in Etruria in the first millennium BC.

The area around Poros was certainly inhabited during the period when Mycenae was all-powerful, evidenced by the discovery, in 1991, of a tholos (Beehive tomb) in nearby Tzanata.

Mezek is famous for the well-preserved medieval Mezek Fortress (Neoutzikon) and its two ancient Thracian beehive tombs, the Mezek and Sheynovets tombs.