Page 391 - Four Thousand Years Ago by Geoffrey Bibby

The visitor to Mycenae, entering through the Lion Cate, sees on his right, as Agamem­
non must daily have seen, the great circular enclosure which contains the shaft graves of
the earlier kings. It must originally have stood outside the walls of the earlier citadel, for
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its graves date to about 1520 b.c., while the wall that now incorporates it was built, to­
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gether with the Lion Gate, about 1400 b.c.
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