A team of international researchers excavating a site in Greece thought they were digging on a Bronze-Age house, but when they discovered a skeleton, they knew it was a grave.

And not just an ordinary grave.

Senior research associate Shari Stocker with the University of Cincinnati told the institution’s magazine the find represents “one of the most magnificent displays of prehistoric wealth discovered in mainland Greece in the past 65 years.”

The tomb, which Stocker said had not been opened before now, belongs to a 3,500-year-old Mycenaean warrior.

The University of Cincinnati team has been working at a site called the Palace of Nestor, which the magazine states is associated with Homeric legend and is thought to have been destroyed in a fire around 1200 B.C.  The ruins as a whole were rediscovered in Pylos in 1939. The university’s team began exploring a previously uncharted field near the palace in May.

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