🧿 Cyclopean Tomb

The Cyclopean Tomb is a Mycenaean tholos tomb at the Bronze Age site of Mycenae in southern Greece. Dating to the early Late Helladic IIA period, which itself dates to approximately 1635/1600 –1480/1470 BCE, it is one of the earliest tholos tombs at the site, and comparatively simple in construction. Like other examples of the type, it consisted of a round burial chamber surmounted by a corbelled roof, itself entered by a narrow rectangular passage known as the dromos. However, unlike later and more elaborate tombs, the dromos was not reinforced with masonry, nor were the stones used to construct the tomb shaped during the building process.