This drawing of a Macedonian tomb from Pydna is based on Heuzey’s drawing. Below the entrance drawing is a plan of the tomb. In the middle of the 4th century BC, a new form of monumental architecture made its appearance in Macedonia, for the first time in the Greek world, the so-called Macedonian tomb. These monuments serve as a manner of burial, initially for the kings and then for the upper social classes. Two main features segregate these burial constructions from all the others and classify them as a separate group: their barrel vaulted roof and their monumental façade. The Macedonian tomb

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This drawing of a Macedonian tomb from Pydna is based on Heuzey’s drawing. Below the entrance drawing is a plan of the tomb. In the middle of the 4th century BC, a new form of monumental architecture made its appearance in Macedonia, for the first time in the Greek world, the so-called Macedonian tomb. These monuments serve as a manner of burial, initially for the kings and then for the upper social classes. Two main features segregate these burial constructions from all the others and classify them as a separate group: their barrelvaulted roof and their monumental façade. The Macedonian tomb of Heuzey is located in Northern Greece,The discovery of the Macedonian tomb of Heuzey, otherwise the tomb of Pydna, is attributed to the French archaeologist and explorer Léon Heuzey, who toured central Macedonia in 1855-56.

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