Olive oil
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Olive oil is a vegetable oil obtained by pressing whole olives and extracting the oil.
Extra virgin olive oil presented with green and black preserved table olives
Ancient Greek olive oil production workshop in Klazomenai, Ionia (modern Turkey)
Ancient oil press (Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology, Bodrum, Turkey)
Olive crusher (trapetum) in Pompeii (79 AD)
Mycenaean Greece
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Mycenaean Greece was the last phase of the Bronze Age in ancient Greece, spanning the period from approximately 1750 to 1050 BC. It represents the first advanced and distinctively Greek civilization i
The Lion Gate at Mycenae
Warrior wearing a boar's tusk helmet, from a Mycenaean chamber tomb in the Acropolis of Athens, 14th–13th century BC.
Death mask, known as the Mask of Agamemnon, Grave Circle A, Mycenae, 16th century BC, probably the most famous artifact of Mycenaean Greece.
Stone stele from Grave Circle A