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The Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns comprise the remains of the two greatest cities of the Mycenaean civilisation.

Between 1600 and 1200 BCE, the Mycenean kingdom was the most powerful in Greece. It served as an inspiration for the Homeric epics and tablets written with the earliest examples of the Greek language, linear B, have been found here. Among the remaining monuments are the massive defensive walls of both cities and the Lions Gate.

Community Perspective: Mycenae’s highlights include the Lions Gate and its on-site museum, while at the less-crowded Tiryns mostly the walls remain.

Site Info

Official Information
Full Name
Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns (ID: 941)
Country
Greece
Status
Inscribed 1999 Site history
History of Mycenae and Tiryns
1999: Inscribed
Inscribed
Type
Cultural
Criteria
  • i
  • ii
  • iii
  • iv
  • vi
Links
UNESCO
whc.unesco.org
Official
All Links
UNESCO.org
Official Website
News Article
  • 6 Sep 2020 news.gtp.gr — Mycenae Site and Museum Reopen to the Public after wildfire

Community Information

  • Community Category
  • Archaeological site: Ancient Greece
Travel Information
Peloponnese hotspot
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Individual People
  • Heinrich Schliemann
    Excavated by him (from 1876 on)
  • Pausanias
    He was one of the first known to write of seeing the ruins of Troy, Alexandria Troas, and Mycenae. (wiki)
Trivia
History
  • Pre-Hellenic civilizations
  • Buried treasures
    Gold Funerary Masks ("Mask of Agamemnon" etc)- Schliemann 1876. Now in National Archeology Museum in Athens
  • Bronze Age
    Mycenae
  • Homeric Locations
    Mycenae: City of Agamemnon
  • Helladic Greece
    ruins of the two greatest cities of the Mycenaean civilization, renowned for its technical and artistic achievements but also its spiritual wealth, which spread around the Mediterranean world between 1600 and 1100 BC (OUV)
  • Neolithic age
    The site of Mycenae is known from excavations to have been occupied from the Neolithic period (c . 4000 BC). (AB)
  • Archaeological 'Type Sites'
    "The Mycenaeans were a Greek-speaking culture of uncertain origins, typical of the chariot drvien warriers of the late Bronze Age. They occupied cities in the Peloponnese, including Mycenae (the "type site" from which the modern name for the culture is derived), Tiryns, Sparta, and Pylos, as well as cities elsewhere such as Athens and Thebes. Eventually, although the reasons and timing are uncertain, the Mycenaeans took over control of Crete"

    See www.owlfarmer.com

  • Bronze Age Collapse

    See en.wikipedia.org

Architecture
World Heritage Process
Religion and Belief
  • Hercules
    Tiryns: Linked to several Herculean myths
Human Activity
  • Masks
    Mycenae - Mask of Agamemnon was discovered here in 1876 by Heinrich Schliemann. The artifact is a funeral mask hewn in gold (wiki)

    See en.wikipedia.org

Constructions
  • Gates depicting Lions
    Lion Gate of Mycenae (1250 BC), depicts two lionesses
  • Tombs
    Lion Tomb, Tomb of Clytemnestra, Tomb of Aegisthos
  • Cemeteries
    from the Helladic period
  • Acropolis
    "Mycenae, an acropolis site, was continuously inhabited from the Early Neolithic" (Wiki) Tiryns see link

    See www.greek-thesaurus.gr

  • Granaries
    Mycenae, near the Lion Gate "Beyond the gate and inside the citadel was a covered court with a small chamber, which probably functioned as a guard post. On the right, adjacent to the wall, was a building that has been identified as a granary because of the pithoi found there containing carbonized wheat" (Wiki)
  • Tunnels
    Tiryns (cyclopean tunnels)
  • Beehive tombs
    Mycenae: 4 tholos including the Treasury of Atreus
Timeline
WHS Hotspots
Literature & Film
  • Location for a classic movie
    Mycenae: Ilektra (Elektra) - 1962 B+W, Dir - Kakogiannis, Nominated for Oscar and Cannes Palm d'Or
  • Literature
    Criterion vi: Mycenae and Tiryns are indissolubly linked with the Homeric epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, the influence of which upon European literature and the arts has been profound for more than three millennia.
News
news.gtp.gr 06/09/2020
Mycenae Site and Museum Reopen to …
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