when he dug at Mycenae was this remarkable circle of graves,

他首先发现的是这圈不寻常的墓穴
which were shafts dug straight down into the soil,

这些墓穴是垂直向土里挖成的竖井
and they are referred to, to this day, technically as shaft graves,

今天它们的专业名字是竖穴墓
and then in other places not very far from that main hill,

在离主山不远的其他地方
they found even more remarkable burials,

他们发现了更为奇特的墓葬
what we call beehive tombs. Just imagine a huge beehive,

我们称它为蜂窝墓试想下一个巨大的蜂窝
in which let's say, the center of the inside of that

我们说它内部的中心部分
might be as much as fifty feet high or more,

大概有五十英尺或者更高
and these were built of extraordinarily huge,

这些墓由加工良好的
heavy stones and very well worked too.

巨石所筑
Here's the marvelous thing.

最令人惊叹同时也是
The reason he had to uncover it was

必须发掘它的原因是