Citadel Grave Circle

Citadel Grave Circle

1600 BCE -1500 BCE

1867

complexes (buildings)

Greece (nation)

Mycenae (deserted settlement)

Mycenaean

cemeteries

View of grave circle A at Mycenae in Greece. "Most of the monuments visible today were erected in the Late Bronze Age, between 1350 and 1200 BC, when the site was at its peak. In the early second millennium BC a small settlement existed on the hill and a cemetery with simple burials on its southwest slope. Grave Circle B, a stone-built funerary enclosure containing monumental graves with rich grave gifts, indicates that the first families of rulers and aristocrats appeared at Mycenae at approximately 1700 BC. This social structure developed further in the early Mycenaean period, c. 1600 BC, when a large central building, a second funerary enclosure (Grave Circle A) and the first tholos tombs were erected on the hill. The finds from these monuments show that the powerful Mycenaean rulers participated in a complex network of commercial exchange with other parts of the Mediterranean,"--Olga Psychogiou, Odysseus.

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