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As a generic term tholos tomb is an alternative name for a Beehive tomb
Beehive tomb

A beehive tomb, also known as the tholos tomb , is a burial structure characterised by its false dome created by the superposition of successively smaller rings of mudbricks or, more often, stones....
 from the late Bronze Age
Bronze Age

The Bronze Age is, with respect to a given prehistory, the period in that society when the most advanced metalworking included smelting copper and tin from naturally-occurring outcroppings of copper and tin ores, creating a bronze alloy by melting those metals together, and casting them into bronze artifact s....
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As a generic term tholos tomb is an alternative name for a Beehive tomb
Beehive tomb

A beehive tomb, also known as the tholos tomb , is a burial structure characterised by its false dome created by the superposition of successively smaller rings of mudbricks or, more often, stones....
 from the late Bronze Age
Bronze Age

The Bronze Age is, with respect to a given prehistory, the period in that society when the most advanced metalworking included smelting copper and tin from naturally-occurring outcroppings of copper and tin ores, creating a bronze alloy by melting those metals together, and casting them into bronze artifact s....
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It is also the name given to several Ancient Greek
Ancient Greece

The term Ancient Greece refers to the period of History of Greece lasting from the Greek Dark Ages ca. 1100 BC and the Dorian invasion, to 146 BC and the Roman Republic conquest of Greece after the Battle of Corinth ....
 structures and buildings:
  • The Tholos at Athens
    Prytaneion

    A Prytaneion was seat of the Prytaneis , and so the seat of government in ancient Greece. The term is used to describe any of a range of ancient structures where officials met but the term is also used to refer to the building where the officials and winners of the Olympic games met at Olympia, Greece....
     was the building which housed the Prytaneion
    Prytaneion

    A Prytaneion was seat of the Prytaneis , and so the seat of government in ancient Greece. The term is used to describe any of a range of ancient structures where officials met but the term is also used to refer to the building where the officials and winners of the Olympic games met at Olympia, Greece....
    , or seat of government, in ancient Athens.
  • The Tholos at Delphi
    Delphi

    Delphi is an archaeology site and a modern town in Greece on the south-western spur of Mount Parnassus in the valley of Phocis. Delphi was the site of the Pythia, the most important oracle in the classical Greek world, when it was a major site for the worship of the god Apollo after he slew the Python , a deity who lived there and protecte...
     is a circular building located approximately 800 metres from the main site of Delphi
    Delphi

    Delphi is an archaeology site and a modern town in Greece on the south-western spur of Mount Parnassus in the valley of Phocis. Delphi was the site of the Pythia, the most important oracle in the classical Greek world, when it was a major site for the worship of the god Apollo after he slew the Python , a deity who lived there and protecte...
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  • The Tholos at Epidaurus
    Epidaurus

    Epidaurus was a small city in ancient Greece, at the Saronic Gulf. The modern town Epidavros , part of the prefecture of Argolis, was built near the ancient site....
     is a circular building with an ornate astronomical
    Astronomy

    Astronomy is the science of Astronomical object and Phenomenon that originate outside the Earth's atmosphere . It is concerned with the evolution, physics, chemistry, meteorology, and motion of celestial objects, as well as the physical cosmology....
     floor design
  • A Tholos pod
The Tholos also appears at the Treasury structure in Petra Jordan

It may also refer to the ancient Roman tholos
Tholos (Ancient Rome)

A tholos is an ancient Roman feature found in the macellum. It has been suggested that the tholos, well provided with water and drains, was where fish were sold, although other uses for the central tholos have been suggested, such as the place where official weights and measures were held for reference or as shrines to the gods of the market...
, a structure found in the centre of the macellum
Macellum

A macellum is an ancient Roman indoor Farmers' market building that sold mostly provisions . The building normally sat alongside the forum and basilica, providing a place in which a market could be held....
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It also refers to the unrelated keyhole-shaped houses of the Halaf culture of the Ancient Near East.