Megaron

Distinctive architectural form employed in the Aegean Bronze Age, and typically consisting of a large hall with a central hearth, one or more anterooms, and a porch. The most famous examples form key elements of the great Mycenaean palaces such as Pylos, built in the second half of the 2nd millennium BC.

A building consisting usually of three rooms: a large hall, usually with a central hearth, entered by way of a smaller vestibule, which is itself preceded by a porch. Buildings of this sort formed the central structures of Mycenaean palaces, but there are predecessors of generally similar form in the earlier prehistory of Greece, possibly as early as" the Neolithic.