The King's Grave

A monumental Nordic Bronze Age burial site near Kivik in southeastern Scania, Sweden, dating to approximately 1500 BC. With a diameter of 75 metres, it is the largest known burial mound in Sweden. The sarcophagus, measuring 3.25 m long, is the only Bronze Age stone burial chamber decorated with rock carvings in all of Scandinavia. Its petroglyphs depict people, animals, ships, lur players, and a horse-drawn chariot with four-spoked wheels. Discovered in the 1750s when quarrying ceased, it was systematically excavated between 1931 and 1933, revealing remains of a Stone Age settlement beneath the cairn.