Mighty fortified walls, awe-inspiring stone tombs, and troves of golden treasures. The Mycenaeans were a warlike people who thrived on the Greek mainland from about 1600 to 1100 BC, leaving mighty ...

THE beehive tomb or tholos at Mycenas known as the “Treasury of Atreus” is one of the most important monuments of the Bronze Age in Greece, and the finest example extant of Mycenæan architecture. Its ...

The Committee inscribed the site on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (i),( ii), (iii),( iv) and (vi): Criterion (i): The architecture and design Mycenae and Tiryns, such as the Lion ...