Glossary Architecture and settlements
Megaron
A large rectangular hall entered through a porch, with a central hearth; the main room of a Mycenaean palace.
The term comes from Mycenaean Greece, where the megaron was the throne room of the palace. Cyprus has no Mycenaean-style palaces, but writers use 'megaron-like' for Late Bronze Age halls with central hearths, as at Enkomi, and for the fifth-century BCE hall of the palace at Vouni. The label describes a plan. It does not by itself show that Aegean settlers built the hall.