When Heinrich Schliemann discovered this Mycenaean beehive or ‘tholos’ tomb–it’s shaped like a beehive inside–and discovered a golden grave mask, he thought he was gazing upon the face of Agamemnon, the storied king of Mycenae who let the Greek forces against Troy in the most famous of all wars. The tomb didn’t belong to Agamemnon’s age, but the discoveries at Mycenae, and at Troy, suggested that Homer’s epic, The Iliad (after Ilium, the ancient name of Troy), was less fictional than some had once believed. There was a historical dimension to the tales, and the characters had been real; not just Agamemnon but Hector, Priam, Achilles, and Helen. This picture shows the dromos or entryway into the tomb entrance.