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A corbelled tomb is a generic term given to burial structures with corbelled roofs rather than simple slabs which generally denote an earlier type of construction.

In Europe they include examples such as the Mycenean tholos tombs.

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	The final group, Group III: the Treasury of Atreus, the Tomb of Clytemnestra and the Tomb of the Genii, are dated to IIIB by a sherd under the threshold of the Treasury.
	Since it had long ago been looted of its contents, he did not realise it was a tomb and called it the Treasury of Atreus.
	Upon discovering a human skull beneath a golden death mask in one of the tombs, he declared: "I have gazed upon the face of Agamemnon".

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