entrance passage or avenue leading to a building, tomb or passageway. Those leading to beehive tombs are enclosed between stone walls and sometimes in-filled between successive uses of the tomb.[22][23] In ancient Egypt the dromos was straight, paved avenue flanked by sphinxes.[22][24] Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_architecture
(from the article `Aegean civilizations`) ...the Shaft Grave Period, perhaps first in Messenia in the 16th century and then in many places in Greece by the middle of the 15th century. The ... Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/d/75