The Cyclopean walls of Mycenae are the vast fortification circuit that rings the Bronze Age citadel in the Argolid, in the Peloponnese. Builders raised them from huge, roughly worked limestone boulders set without mortar, the largest weighing tonnes apiece. The scale of the stones stunned later Greeks, who decided that only the giant Cyclopes could … Read more
The Treasury of Atreus, also called the Tomb of Agamemnon, is a great Bronze Age tholos or beehive tomb at Mycenae in the Argolid, in the Peloponnese. Built in the Late Bronze Age, it is the largest and finest of the Mycenaean tholos tombs. A long open passage cut into the hillside leads to a … Read more
The Lion Gate is the main entrance to the Bronze Age citadel of Mycenae, set in the Argolid region of the Peloponnese in southern Greece. A triangular limestone slab above the lintel carries two lions or lionesses flanking a central column, the emblem of Mycenaean art and power. This relief is the oldest known monumental … Read more