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Mycenaean tombs

Archaeologists Unearth Two More Magnificent Bronze Age Tombs at Pylos

2019-12-18 by Phil Butler

Tholos Tomb VI

Archaeologists have discovered two new monumental royal tombs dating from 3,500 years ago at the site of the ancient city of Pylos.

Tags: Agamemnon, Ancient Greece, Classics, Greece, Greek history, Griffon Warrior, Jack L. Davis, Minoan seals, Mycenaean tombs, Mycenaeans, Pylos, Sharon R. Stocker, Troy, University of Cincinnati

Nemea’s Aidonia Dig Reveals Two Unlooted Mycenaean Period Tombs

2019-09-06 by Phil Butler

Burial chamber

Archaeologists have unearthed two new unplundered chamber tombs dating from the Late Mycenaean period of the Mycenaean palaces (circa 1400-1200 BC). Systematic research being conducted at the Aidonia dig by the Antiquities Ephorate of Corinth at the Mycenaean cemetery of Aidonia in Nemea continue to reveal fascinating new knowledge. In the first of the two […]

Tags: Aidonia, Aidonia archaeology, Aidonia dig, Aidonia tombs, archaeology, chamber tombs, Mycenaean tombs, Mycenaeans, Nemea, Nemea dig, Nemea site

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