Tholos Tomb of Epano Fournos

Few visitors venture down the hill to the northwest of the ancient Mycene archaeological area. Pleasant trails through the olive groves lead to several more tholos tombs, unfortunately unmarked and not maintained or protected. This tomb is from the Late Helladic II A period (LHII; c. 1450–c. 1400 BC)
Alan Wace divided the nine tholos tombs of Mycenae into three groups of three, each based on architecture. His earliest – the Cyclopean Tomb, Epano Phournos, and the Tomb of Aegisthus – are dated to LHIIA.
Burial in tholoi is seen as replacing burial in shaft graves. The care taken to preserve the shaft graves testifies that they were by then part of the royal heritage, the tombs of the ancestral heroes. Being more visible, the tholoi all had been plundered either in antiquity, or in later historic times.