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Photos of the Very Best Ancient Mycenaean Art & Sites

Photos of of the very best Ancient Mycenaean art, antiquity and historic archaeology sites.

Mycenaean Greece was at the last phase of the Bronze Age in Ancient Greece from approximately 1750–1050 BC. During this period the first distinctively Greek city states on mainland Greece appeared with urban organisation, works of art, and writing systems.

The most prominent city state was Mycenae and its Mycenaean artists and artisans. Other centers of power that emerged included Pylos, Tiryns, Midea in the Peloponnese, Orchomenos, Thebes, Athens in Central Greece and Iolcos in Thessaly.

The Ancient Mycenaean Greeks introduced several innovations in the fields of engineering, architecture and military infrastructure. They traded over vast areas of the Mediterranean bringing wealth to the Mycenaean economy.

Mycenaean used a syllabic script, Linear B, offers the first written records of the Indo-European Greek language.

Mycenaean Greece was dominated by a warrior elite society and consisted of a network of palace states that developed rigid hierarchical, political, social and economic systems.

In Greek mythology, Agamemnon was a king of Mycenae who commanded the Greeks during the Trojan War. Agamemnon was killed upon his return from Troy, either by his wife’s lover Aegisthus or by his wife herself.

At the head of this society was the king, known as a wanax. Mycenaean Greece perished with the collapse of Bronze Age culture in the eastern Mediterranean, to be followed by the so-called Greek Dark

Minoan art and other remnants of material culture, especially the sequence of ceramic styles. Minoan artworks from Akrotiri, a buried Minoan town discovered on Santorini Island, can be seen in Athens Archaeological Museum. Browse pictures and images of Minoan Knossos, Minoan paintings, Minoan pottery and Minoan antiquities