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Cyclopean

Cyclopean is a descriptor applied to the characteristic wall-building method of the Mycenaean culture. Walls were fitted together of huge irregular boulders, without mortar.

Ruins of this nature are found at Greek, Etruscan, and Anatolian sites.

The word comes from the mythical monster Cyclopes, to whom the building of such enormous walls is attributed.

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