Explore: Mycenae (extinct City)

ruler of the Elamite Empire, dies. c. 1650 BC—Greeks start to live in Mycenae. c. 1650 BC—Middle Kingdom ends in Ancient Egypt (other date is 1674 BC)

Greeks also depicted them in sculpture, such as with the Lion Gate of Mycenae or in the island-sanctuary of Delos, where various sculptures of lions

this period, almost every city between Pylos and Gaza was violently destroyed, and many were abandoned, including Hattusa, Mycenae, and Ugarit, with Robert

tablets have been found at Mycenae itself, Tiryns and Thebes and at Chania, in Western Crete. The language is named after Mycenae, one of the major centres

both gold and glass in contemporary Mycenaean contexts, as seen both at Mycenae and the Tholos at Volo. Argonauts are featured in Twenty Thousand Leagues

but they are far less prominent than in the remains of warrior-ruled Mycenae, where the famous shaft-grave burials contain many very richly decorated

found mainly in the palace archives at Knossos, Kydonia, Pylos, Thebes and Mycenae, disappeared with the fall of Mycenaean civilization during the Late Bronze

During recent excavation at the Neopalatial area of the Cult Centre of the City of Knossos a seal stone was found in a foundation deposit. The steatite seal

tragedies centered on the stories of four ruling dynasties: House Atreus of Mycenae, House Cadmus in Thebes, House Erichthonius in Athens, and House Minos

with the lavish fresco decoration of sites like Knossos, Tiryns, and Mycenae. Ancient Greek sculpture was composed almost entirely of workable and durable