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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
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were enormously powerful, at least locally, and wealthy.
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Even if you imagine that slaves did the work,
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you would need a hell of a lot of them,
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over a long period of time,
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and you had to feed them, if nothing else.
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So, we are talking about a wealthy group,
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and of course, the thing that struck Schliemann