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and bringing it up to you themselves.
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So, the citadel and the farmland surrounding it,
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make up fundamentally the unit which is the Mycenaean kingdom.
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Well, the first thing that Schliemann found
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when he dug at Mycenae was this remarkable circle of graves,
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which were shafts dug straight down into the soil,
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and they are referred to, to this day, technically as shaft graves,
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and then in other places not very far from that main hill,
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they found even more remarkable burials,
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what we call beehive tombs. Just imagine a huge beehive,
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in which let's say, the center of the inside of that
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might be as much as fifty feet high or more,