Bronze Age Europe
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The European Bronze Age is characterized by bronze artifacts and the use of bronze implements. The regional Bronze Age succeeds the Neolithic and Copper Age and is followed by the Iron Age. It starts
Gold 'Mask of Agamemnon', Greece, 1550 BC
Marble figurine, Cycladic culture, 2700 BC
Minoan palace at Knossos, Crete
Minoan rhyton, Crete, 1500 BC
Mycenae
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Mycenae is an archaeological site near Mykines in Argolis, north-eastern Peloponnese, Greece. It is located about 120 kilometres south-west of Athens; 11 kilometres north of Argos; and 48 kilometres s
Bronze Age Europe
…Greece Postpalatial Bronze Age Marble figurine, Cycladic culture, 2700 BC Minoan palace at Knossos, Crete Minoan rhyton, Crete, 1500 BC Lion Gate, Mycenae, Greece, c. 1250 BC Treasury of Atreus, Greece, c. 1300 BC Gold artefacts from Mycenae, 16th century BC Stone stele from Grave Circle A, Mycenae, 16th…
The Lion Gate and example of Cyclopean masonry at Mycenae
A view of the citadel
View from the acropolis, or high city
The Tomb of Aegisthus outside the walls of the citadel