Heinrich Schliemann was a wealthy German businessman who turned late in life to archaeology, driven by a stubborn belief that Homer’s poems held real history rather than pure invention. Fresh from his celebrated digs at Troy, he brought that same conviction to the citadel of Mycenae in the later nineteenth century. Where scholars saw only … Read more
Grave Circle B is the older of the two royal grave circles at Mycenae, lying just outside the walls of the citadel a short distance from the Lion Gate. It holds shaft graves and simpler cist graves where early rulers were buried with pottery, weapons, jewellery and gold objects, though with less gold than the … Read more
Grave Circle A is a royal cemetery of deep shaft graves lying inside the walls of the citadel of Mycenae, just beyond the great gateway. A double ring of upright stone slabs marks the circle, which held the bodies of men, women and children of the early ruling house. The graves belong to the dawn … Read more