The Treasury of Atreus
Corbelled roofs everywhere else in the ancient world stall out around five metres, because a false dome has no keystone to fight the span — so how did Bronze Age masons at Mycenae close one 14.5 metres across, and set a single 120-tonne lintel above its door, without iron, pulleys or a crane?
c. 1400–1250 BCE, Late Bronze Age (Late Helladic III) · Mycenae, Argolis, GreeceAdded July 2026