Sentence examples for grave circles from inspiring English sources

These grave circles have no architectural character, consisting essentially of vertical shafts cut into the bedrock.

Prehistoric grave circles and Roman stone markers can still be seen within it.

The earliest royal burials known from Mycenae are those of the two grave circles, the first discovered by Heinrich Schliemann in 1876 and the second by Alan J.B. Wace in 1951.

Not far from the tumulus of the Plataeans, excavators found four grave circles dating from the middle Bronze Age, elabo rately built with stones, which encircled several shaft‐type graves, probably of local kings and their families.

Another building, known as "the granary," from the carbonized barley, wheat, and vetches found in its basement, was erected in the 13th century bce between the Cyclopean citadel wall and one of the grave circles; it continued in use up to the destruction of the city by fire about 1100 bce.

While it was fascinating — it was supposedly once King Agamemnon's home and has had cyclopean walls (so named because only a Cyclops could have lifted such enormous boulders) — it was so crowded with tour groups we could barely see the path around the various grave circles, which once held much of the gold we had seen at the archaeological museum in Athens.

South of the grave circle lie the ruins of the "ramp house," the "south house," and the "house of Tsountas".

Grave Circle A, formed circa 1600 BC as a new elite burial place, was probably first restricted to men and seems to be a continuation of the earlier Grave Circle B and correlates with the general social trend of higher burial investment taking place throughout entire Greece that time.

Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia was originally considered to be a Union cemetery, but its Confederate section contains 482 graves circling this symbol-laden monument.

Schliemann excavated the graves of Circle A in 1876, but it was not until 1951 that Circle B was noted.

A fantastic array of gold and silver cups, jewelry, and dress ornaments had been placed with the dead, especially with those in the graves of Circle A. Golden diadems and elaborate hairpins decked the heads of women.