Mycenaean cemetery at Aidonia

burial ground · 1600 BC – 2099 AD

Mycenaean burial ground located approximately 8 kilometers west of Nemea containing 20 tombs dated to the 15th century BCE. All but two of the burials were looted in the 1970s, but the illicit finds were retrieved and repatriated to Greece in 1996.

Coordinates

37.84022, 22.58318

Also known as

Aidonia, Aïdhónia (el), Αηδόνια (el)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
• Wikidata · CC0 1.0
  Wikidata (CC0)

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