Buried cities . THE GATE OF LIONS. The stone over the gateway is immensely strong. But the wallbuilders were afraid to pile too great a weight upon it. So theyleft a triangular space above it. You can see how they cut thebig stones with slanting ends to do this. This triangle theyfilled with a thinner stone carved with two lions. The lionsheads are gone. They were made separately, perhaps of bronze,and stood away from the stone looking out at people approachingthe -Metropolitan Museum INSIDE THE TREASURY OF ATREUS. No wonder the untaught modern Greeks thought that this wasa giants oven^
Buried cities . THE GATE OF LIONS. The stone over the gateway is immensely strong. But the wallbuilders were afraid to pile too great a weight upon it. So theyleft a triangular space above it. You can see how they cut thebig stones with slanting ends to do this. This triangle theyfilled with a thinner stone carved with two lions. The lionsheads are gone. They were made separately, perhaps of bronze,and stood away from the stone looking out at people approachingthe -Metropolitan Museum INSIDE THE TREASURY OF ATREUS. No wonder the untaught modern Greeks thought that this wasa giants oven^ where the giants baked their bread. But learnedmen have shown that it was connected with a tomb, and that inthis room the men of Mycenae worshipped their dead. It wasvery wonderfully made and beautifully ornamented. The bigstone over the doorway was nearly thirty feet long, and weighsa hundred and twenty tons. Men came to this beehive tombin the old days of Mycenae, down a long passage with a highstone wall on either side. The doorway was decorated withmany-colored marbles and beautiful bronze plates. The insidewas ornamented, too, and there was an altar in there.
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