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... acropolis still arouse our admiration, particularly when we remember that they were built a thousand years before the monuments of Classical Greece. Mycenae is an amazing set of ruins that in the second millennium BC was one of the major centers of ...
It was still raining when Papou pulled in to the palace ruins at Mycenae. But we got the Lion's Gate to ourselves for a while, quite a luxurious treat, and then we had fun going to the peak of the palace walls and taking pictures of each other under our ...
From Tyrins, we drove to Mycenae (my-SEE-knee), the ancient kingdom of Agamemnon and Menelaeus who fought the Trojan War. The stone blocks of these ruins are so huge that the later Greeks couldn't believe that mere humans could have built it, so they ...
... was worth a visit. The next day (after dealing with the idiot bus girl) we headed down for a day trip to Mycenae to check out some of the oldest ruins Greece has to offer. The hive-shaped tombs are really neat, and the scenery is also really beautiful.
21 km (13 mi) north of Nauplion, Mycenae, Peloponnese, Greece
Mycenae, Peloponnese, Greece
Mycenae, Peloponnese, Greece
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Acropolis now ... then what?
Posted on Apr 24, 2008, 00:22:49
... the centuries are displayed here. But perhaps the most controversial and riveting item is the golden Mask of Agamemnon, the king of Mycenae who joined King Menelaus and warrior Achilles in the battle against Troy. Detractors say the mask is a fake, or at ...
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