Dendra

Dendra is a prehistoric archaeological site situated outside the village with the same name belonging to the municipality of Midea in the Argolid, Greece [1]. The site of Dendra is approximately 6 kilometres from the town of Argos [1]. It was inhabited during the Neolithic and Early Helladic periods, and used as a cemetery between the Late Helladic II period and Late Helladic IIIB (that is, c. 1450 – c. 1180 BCE) [1]. The cemetery consists of a tholos tomb, three tumuli and sixteen chamber tombs, and is one of the richest known from the Mycenaean period [1]. Persson named the tholos tomb the "Royal Tomb", and determined that it dated to the Late Helladic IIIA period (c. 1350 BCE) [1]. The cemetery at Dendra was first excavated in 1926, when Nikolaos Bertos, the local ephor of the Greek Archaeological Service, invited Persson to excavate its tholos tomb [1].