"Treasury of Atreus" or "Tomb of Agamemnon"
Bronze Age beehive tomb with a vast corbelled dome, long corridor and a colossal stone lintel.
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This guide to the Treasury of Atreus, the tholos tomb at Mycenae near Nafplio long linked to King Agamemnon, follows what happened to its carved green-stone doorway in the early eighteen hundreds. You'll meet an Ottoman governor with a ladder, a young Irish lord who was a friend of Lord Byron, and a ship called the Pylades. Best heard standing in the long stone corridor, facing the doorway.
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