Tomb of Clytemnestra the dromos, a woman's grave was found in addition to accompanying artifacts; two mirrors, ornaments and beads. However, the inner burial chamber was found looted and empty. Lord William Taylour suggested that the tomb may have been king Agamemnon’s. It has been also claimed that the tomb had no occupant at all due to the destruction of Mycenae that occurred sometime during the mid-to-late 13th century BC. Tomb of Clytemnestra The Tomb of Clytemnestra was a Mycenaean tholos type tomb built in c. 1250 BC. A number of architectural features such as the semi-column were largely adopted by later classical
Pygmy (Greek mythology) Monstrous Races of Men Are Derived From the Stock of Adam or Noah's Sons." Later Greek geographers and writers attempted to place the Pygmies in a geographical context. Sometimes they were located in far India, at other times near the Ethiopians of Africa. The Pygmy bush tribes of central Africa were so named after the Greek mythological creatures by European explorers in the 19th century. From Pliny's Natural History: From "The Life of Apollonius of Tyana" by Flavius Philostratus: From "The Travels of Sir John Mandeville": Pygmy (Greek mythology) The Pygmies ( "Pygmaioi", from the adjective πυγμαῖος from πυγμή "pygmē",