In many respects, the culture of the Etruscans was very similar to that of the Mycenae in Greece. |
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This area was one of the first spots in the region in being inhabited and to become a town, only equaled by the acropolis of Tiryns and Mycenae. |
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The finds from the Shaft Graves at Mycenae contained massive quantities of gold and silver plate, including the gold death mask of Agamemnon. |
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At the time of his death he was working on material he had excavated outside the acropolis walls at Mycenae. |
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But Thyestes either contested Atreus's right to rule or seduced Atreus's wife, Aërope, and thus was driven from Mycenae. |
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For some time Mycenae has found the status of the great power capable as equals to talk to Hettsky empire and Egypt. |
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Candleholders were made from stone on Crete and in Mycenae and featured a single short foot. |
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In the tombs of Mycenae there has been found a lot of jewellery and implements made of gold and silver. |
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At Mycenae and Pylos have been found iron rings made from iron mixed with nickel to make it stainless. |
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Treasury of Atreus, also called Tomb of Agamemnon, a beehive, or tholos, tomb built about 1350 to 1250 bc at Mycenae, Greece. |
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To recover Helen, the Greeks launched a great expedition under the overall command of Menelaus's brother, Agamemnon, king of Árgos or Mycenae. |
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The city walls still standing today are reminiscent of the Cyclopean walls of Tiryns and Mycenae. |
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Amber used in antiquity as at Mycenae and in the prehistory of the Mediterranean comes from deposits of Sicily. |
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Ancient tradition said that Mycenae was founded by the Perseid dynasty and that the Atreids were outsiders. |
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The best examples of the Bronze Age Greece palace are seen in the excavations at Mycenae, Tiryns and Pylos. |
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Pieces of money to pay for the passage from this world to the next were placed in the mouths of corpses in ancient Mycenae, Greece, and Rome and in a pouch in Japan. |
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The building, with its windowless, redbrick, cylindrical tower, is based on a funeral pantheon from the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, the Treasure of Atreus in Mycenae and the Moroccan tombs of Meknes. |
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The twins Atreus and Thyestes with their descendants played the leading role in the tragedy of the devolution of power in Mycenae. |
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Despite Mycenae and Troy being maritime powers, the Iliad features no sea battles. |
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The cyclopean walls of the acropolis of Mycenae have been dated to 1350 BC and those of Tiryns slightly earlier. |
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Gold cups from Mycenae are of two main types: plain curved or carinated forms related to the silverware and pottery of Troy and embossed conical vessels of the Minoan tradition. |
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These Heraclids conquered the Peloponnesian kingdoms of Mycenae, Sparta and Argos, claiming, according to legend, a right to rule them through their ancestor. |
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The major Mycenaean cities were Mycenae and Tiryns in Argolis, Pylos in Messenia, Athens in Attica, Thebes and Orchomenus in Boeotia, and Iolkos in Thessaly. |
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