Appearing in tomb decorations, Mycenaean tholos tombs were shaped as beehives. Two Minoan cemeteries with tholos tombs are located near the village. In 1912 and 1926 two tholos tombs north of the Bay of Navarino were excavated. The "tholos" is characteristic of Mycenaean elite tomb construction. There is no clear connection between these domestic, circular buildings and later tholos tombs. Excavation of the tholos tomb was completed, first partly explored in 1902. The "tholos" is abandoned in favour of small cists, either under the homes or outside. Marine animals decorated friezes around the base of the tholos. By Hellenistic and Roman times, the domical tholos had become the customary cemetery symbol. A macellum provides shops arranged around a courtyard which contains a central tholos. They were initially thought to be remnants of a round shrine or tholos. The tholos is part of the Delphi UNESCO World Heritage Site. Kato Phournos, Panagia Tholos, and the Lion Tomb. A number of surviving temple-like structures are circular, and are referred to as "tholos". The tholos also goes by that name.