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Introduction – A Bronze-Age Business Hub Walk a hundred metres south-west of the palace ramp and you stand in the shattered rooms of the House of the Oil Merchant Mycenae. Charred beams, crushed stirrup jars and pocket-sized clay tablets reveal
Introduction – Why Grain Meant Power Gold masks and Cyclopean walls steal the headlines, yet the Granary of Mycenae kept the kingdom alive. Hidden just inside the Lion Gate, this warehouse of massive clay jars stored enough wheat and barley
Introduction – Descending into the Underground Cistern of Mycenae High walls and lion gates impress, yet a fortress falls if its wells run dry. To solve that problem the engineers of Late Helladic IIIB (c. 1250 BCE) carved the Underground
Introduction – Why the North Gate in Mycenae Still Matters Everyone photographs the Lion Gate, yet a short walk east reveals the North Gate in Mycenae and a stealthy Postern Gate—smaller portals that kept watch over couriers, livestock and midnight
Introduction – A Collapsed Giant Beside the Lion Gate A few paces north of Mycenae’s museum path, a weather-worn passage dips into the hillside and ends at the Tholos Tomb of the Lions in Mycenae. Raised around 1450 BCE, this
Introduction – Why the Tholos Tomb of Aegisthus Matters Before the giant Treasury of Atreus dominated guidebooks, the Tholos Tomb of Aegisthus in Mycenae broke new ground in Bronze-Age Greece. Raised c. 1510 – 1450 BCE (Late Helladic IIA), it
A Beehive Fit for a Queen Stride 500 m south-west of the Lion Gate and an ashlar-lined passageway draws you toward the Tholos Tomb of Clytemnestra in Mycenae. Raised around 1250 BCE, this huge beehive (tholos) was one of the
Why Grave Circle B in Mycenae Still Matters Before the celebrated gold masks of Circle A, another cemetery— Grave Circle B in Mycenae —held the first royal dead of the citadel. Cut into limestone bedrock 117 m west of the
Opening Panorama – Introducing Grave Circle A in Mycenae Just a few paces southeast of the Lion Gate, a low stone ring 27.5 m across guards six deep shaft graves that rewrote Bronze-Age history. Known today as Grave Circle A
Stepping Inside the Megaron of Mycenae Climb the ramp from the Lion Gate, follow the zig-zag path past storerooms and workshops, and you reach the summit of the citadel where the Megaron of Mycenae once blazed with hearth-fire and royal
