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That is to say,
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it was some kind of a big religious thing going on here,
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where the king--
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it was obviously a royal thing
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because the cost of it was so enormous;
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nobody else could afford a tomb of that kind.
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So,
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here was a royal tomb closed forever
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and yet built at a fantastic expense and enormous kind of labor.
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The same is true in a general way
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of what we find in the royal palace up on top of the hill at Mycenae,
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and so what is perfectly clear is the people who ruled these places