WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -Since the shape of these tombs’ resembles a beehive, they are also called “beehive tombs".

Detailed explanation-2: -A beehive tomb, also known as a tholos tomb (plural tholoi; from Greek , , “domed tombs"), is a burial structure characterized by its false dome created by corbelling, the superposition of successively smaller rings of mudbricks or, more often, stones.

Detailed explanation-3: -The tholos tomb is a round, beehive shaped structure famously built by the late Bronze Age Mycenean peoples. These were royal examples of the commonly employed chamber tomb.

Detailed explanation-4: -The tholos was built out of ashlar blocks using a technique known as corbelling to create the dome (see page title illustration). This involved laying the stones so that each horizontal course slightly overlapped the one below it until the distance was small enough so that a single slab could be used to close the gap.

Detailed explanation-5: -In the Mycenaean period, tholoi were large ceremonial tombs, sometimes built into the sides of hills; they were beehive-shaped and covered by a corbeled arch. In classical Greece, the tholos at Delphi had a peristyle; the tholos in Athens, serving as a dining hall for the Athenian Senate, had no outside columns.