Mycenaean, an ancient city in north-eastern Peloponnese in Greece.The ruins are located in the town 32 kilometres north of the Gulf Argolikos, near the tiny village that stands as the ancient city.Mycenaean located on a rocky ridge, hanging from the east of passage, which can be accessed from Bulgaria to the north.With regard to the significant role that the city played in prehistoric times, "Mycenaean" is often referred to as the last period of prehistoric civilization in Greece, also called pozdneelladskim III (circa 1400-1100 BC).Key Mikenam myths relating to the character that the city has built Percey, and building it built kiklopami (cyclops), a giant.Any stack of roughly vytesannyh huge boulder size called Cyclopean.Most Mikeny known as a residence Pelopidov, Atreya king and his son Agamemnona, Agamemnona Klitemnestry wife and their children - and Orest Electra.In Myceanean Mikeny were tsarist era residence, the authority extended to the territory, which is probably far exceeded all such public education of the era in the region and covered perhaps the entire northern peninsula.Subsequently Mikeny gradually lost their significance, while at the greko-persidskih wars they send soldiers to Thermopylae and Plateyam.Mycenaean were almost completely destroyed Argos in 468 BC, but a few residents remained there throughout the Hellenistic period.By 2.BCThe town was abandoned.

The excavation produced startling findings : mine shrine; Dumping outside the city walls; Building and the palace.Mine shrine is a large stone six wells in the territory, which was subsequently gate wall.The wells found 19 skeletons, one of which survives in part mumifitsirovannom form.At several persons were buried mask chekannogo gold.The graves were treasures, items made of gold, silver and bronze, including jewellery, cups, swords, rings and other objects.The total weight of gold found here - more than 14 kg.Outside the city found nine tombs tweeter, or tolosov, a vaulted underground facilities in the form of archaic mind, with a high dome, which fell on the corridor, or dromosu.After the burial entrance stone laying and dromos filled land, but often it again torn through the shrine several times.The big size Tolos, it is very late now called the shrine Atreya, a complex of stone blocks unbelievable proportions.Like most of the tombs, Atreya tombs were robbed in antiquity.Chamber tombs were carved in Mount rectangular rooms, which are well-dromosu.It is believed that the tombs of wealthy or even the prince, but not of royal families.The most recent time items discovered Mikenah, palace and castle walls.Perhaps they are 14.BC, but there are small balances Palace 16-15 centuries. , which was much more modest in size.The remnants of castle walls built of huge stone boulder, roughly stone, but excellent prignannyh, no towers, but the gates are well protected bastions of hand.Above the entrance (it is called in the literature "Lions Gate") is a triangular plate, which carved two lions, and among them - column, the front foot lionesses rely on her foot.This is the only remnant product of monumental sculptures relating to that period.At the top of the mountain there were archaic Doric temple, it was found important archaic terrain, as well as findings related to the Hellenistic period.

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