An unplundered Mycenaean chamber tomb has been recently discovered near Sparta.

The tomb, an artificial cave dug into the soft rock, was found during terracing work on a knoll near the village of Peristeri, some 47 km southeast of Sparta. It contained the skeletons of nine adults and a child, and was furnished with grave goods made of clay, bronze and semiprecious stones (including a steatite seal-stone, a bronze razor and a pair of tweezers used by Mycenaean women to pluck their eyebrows). The child’s bones were ringed with upturned vases.

The finds are tentatively dated to between 1340 and 1050 BC.