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The Mycenaeans believed in the afterlife and this is why they dug-out hill slopes and constructed grandiose tombs with a domed roof ("tholos") to bury their rulers, expressing the anguish of man for an eternal and indestructible residence and symbolizing earthly authority and prestige. There, they placed the bodies of their kings and awarded them eternity. They covered their faces with gold masks and put their personal belongings next to them as grave goods: jewellery, cups, vessels, weapons. At the celebrated Tholos Tombs that lay near the citadel of Mycenae, archaeologists discovered many gold, silver, bronze and clay artefacts.

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