- The Treasury of Atreus is located to the west side of the modern road leading to the citadel, approximately 500 m south-southwest of the Lion Gate.[73].
- The Treasury of Atreus is 13.5 meters high and has a diameter of 14.5 meters. The interior of the tomb creates a fascinating echo and the ceiling is vaulted.
- The name ‘Treasury of Atreus’ is a misnomer, as there is no concrete evidence linking the tomb to the legendary king Atreus.
- Treasury of Atreus is a mausoleum / tomb, corbel vault and underground structure that was built from -1300 until -1250.
- The Treasury of Atreus or Tomb of Agamemnon is a large tomb at Mycenae, Greece, constructed during the Bronze Age around 1250 BC.
- The Treasury of Atreus, Mycenae, c. 1300-1250 B.C.E. ... North Africa — there is in a hill, an enormous tomb, which is sometimes known as the “Treasury of Atreus.”
- Yayın zamanı: önceki günThe tholos tomb at Mycenae known as “Treasury of Atreus”, built between 1350 and 1250 BCE, is the largest, best preserved, and one of the latest built in the...
- The Treasury of Atreus – also known as the Tomb of Agamemnon – is the largest and most impressive of the nine tholos tombs at Mycenae.
- I recently attended a ‘Friends of the British School in Athens’ lecture by William Cavanagh on the Mycenaean tomb commonly known as ‘The Treasury of Atreus’.
- It had already been looted and partly buried, when Pausanias visited it in the 2nd century AD. He listed it as “treasury of Atreus”, namely vault, as locals called it.
