Cyclopean masonry is a type of stonework found in Mycenaean architecture, built with massive limestone boulders, roughly fitted together with minimal...

external enemies and invaders. It is among the oldest examples of cyclopean masonry in the world. It was erected by the early Magadha rulers using massive...

world and sometimes corresponds to the less technical category of Cyclopean masonry. Lezhe Chaonia And others Chufut-Kale Mangup Vorontsov Palace Ahu...

non-stone. Rubble masonry. Use of rubble in masonry: antonymous to ashlar masonry. Can be infill in an ashlar wall, used in cyclopean concrete, and other...

Bronze Age. The fortifications of Mycenae were built with the use of Cyclopean masonry. With the citadel built on a cliff, the architects created protection...

visual impressiveness of their fortifications. Cyclopean is the term normally applied to the masonry characteristics of Mycenaean fortification systems...

structures particularly on tholoi or beehive tombs. Contrasting with the cyclopean masonry that formed the basis of much of Mycenaean construction, stomioi were...

three groups of three, each based on architecture. His earliest – the Cyclopean Tomb, Epano Phournos, and the Tomb of Aegisthus – are dated to LHIIA....

Hebrews’ contemplation of Transjordian megalithic structures and cyclopean masonry walls of Canaanite cities, with some being 18 feet thick. Nonetheless...

discovery of the city: "a coast-line of mingled mud, ooze, and weedy Cyclopean masonry which can be nothing less than the tangible substance of earth's supreme...

architecture is known to mountain Ingushetia as early as 8,000–4,000 BC cyclopean masonry settlements Egikal, Targim, Doshkhakle, Leymi. Caucasologist Ruslan...

particular in Argolis. Its most notable features were its palace, its Cyclopean tunnels and especially its walls, which gave the city its Homeric epithet...

city there are the remains of ancient Elymian and Phoenician walls (Cyclopean masonry) indicating different stages of settlement and occupation in antiquity...

guided by Pausanias's accounts, excavated the area south of the gate. Cyclopean masonry Grave Circle A, Mycenae History of lions in Europe Mycenaean civilization...

is shown in the site plan given here. The dams were constructed of cyclopean masonry on a massive scale. The dam to the north is preserved, but the one...

beehive technique Arkadiko Bridge (c. 1300-1190 BC): corbel arch, cyclopean masonry King's Gate (Hattusa) [de] (c.1400-1200 BC), an imitation of the parabolic...

protectively confine traffic to the bridge. Corbel arch built from Cyclopean masonry, in the Greek Arkadiko bridge Corbel arch in the shape of an isosceles...

Cyclopean Wall of Rajgir which encircled the former capital of Magadha, Rajgir. Amongst the oldest pieces of cyclopean masonry in the world...

Athenian expedition, became a dependent ally of the Carthaginians. Cyclopean masonry or Phoenician walls, and the parts later modified or built by the...

235,000 square meters of land. These massive walls were made from Cyclopean masonry. In many locations they are built directly on the cliffs that form...

8 kilometres (5.5 mi) long, was constructed. The dam is built of cyclopean masonry, composed of sandstone blocks weighing from 2 to 4.5 long tons (2...

beside the Varāha Narasiṃha temple to the south-east. It is built of cyclopean masonry and lacks a spire. The maṇḍapa is enclosed and supported by turned...

portions of the southern wall of the ancient citadel, built in massive cyclopean masonry consisting of limestone blocks, are still visible; and the two walls...

(148 ft), where considerable remains of an acropolis with walls in Cyclopean masonry, finely cut blocks of limestone, still exist. The summit is now occupied...

have required dismantling much of the still-impressive stretch of Cyclopean masonry south of the Propylaia", Hurwit, The Acropolis in the Age of Pericles...

visual impressiveness of their fortifications. The walls were built in Cyclopean style; consisted of walls built of large, unworked boulders more than...

They permanently settled in fortified settlements and developed cyclopean masonry to further fortify their defensive walls. The Hyperboreans were by...

beliefs. Temple Tkhabya-Yerd (temple of 2000) was initially a cuboid cyclopean masonry structure, which was rebuilt during the spread of Christianity in...

Castellieri were indeed built along the Istrian coast and show a similar Cyclopean masonry which is also characterizing in the Mycenaean civilization at the...

rock to support it. The rock face behind the image is carved like Cyclopean masonry, to give the appearance of a mountain. The pedestal on which the Buddha...