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Stylos Tholos Tomb

Tomb / BurialEuropeGreecec. 1,300 BCEMinoan (Late Minoan III)

Monumental corbel-vaulted tholos tomb of a Late Minoan III ruler on Azoires hill south of Aptera, approached by an exceptionally long stone-built dromos of 20.8 m with a Mycenaean-style relieving triangle above the entrance. Hellenistic cups found in the triangle show ceremonies continued at the looted tomb a millennium after construction.

35.4495°, 24.1272°

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