Mycenae

a new and closer contact with Egypt (which may help to account for their sudden prosperity toward 1600 B.C as well as for the very quick development of natural is an involuntary wall painting at that time). The close relations between Crete and Mycenae, once established, were to last a long time; toward 1400 B.C., when Linear B script began to appear, the Mycenaean’s were the rulers of Crete, either by its people. In any event, their power rose as that of the Minoans declined; the great a…

Ancient Greece is one of the most influential civilizations in the ancient world. They created practically everything that we use today, what we believe in today’s society, and what we do in our every day to day. The point of this paper is to summary the achievements of Greek Civilization and explains its rise from the local cultures of the Mycenaean Civilization through an imperial power of the Athenian Empire to a dominant cultural model of the Hellenic Civilization in the Ancient World.…

that some details have been changed. There are various written sources to support it, from Homer’s Iliad to Hittite cuneiform tablets. Equally, there is a large amount of archaeological evidence found both at Troy and other ancient sites, such as Mycenae. It seems unlikely that evidence of this quantity and scale could have originated solely from a legend, and thus the Trojan War must have been, at some point, a reality. There are many sources written after the time by Greek writers that…

The civilization of the Greeks included many civilizations and city states. Geography played a major role in in Greek history. Greece occupied a mountainous peninsula, that encompassed only 45,000 square miles of territory. The mountains and sea were especially significant to Greece. The mountains isolated Greeks from one another and the sea helped for trade and colonization. The sea was a great influence on Greek society. The Greeks would become seafarers and Greek civilization would spread…

According to Archeologists, Mycenae was the most significant of the archaeological projects of Greece because it is believed that Mycenae was the largest of all the Mycenaean Age cities. Notably, the Mycenaean Age was named after the city of Mycenae. Prior to Heinrich Schliemann’s excavations of Troy, the Mycenaean’s as well as Troy were a lost civilization. Many archeologists started to…

The Lions Gate is a main entrance leading into Mycenae. It’s surrounded by walls made of massive stones from cyclopean masonry, but the most captivating is the structure perched above formed by a building system called corbelling. Two lions are in a heraldic pose, standing on two alters split by a column…

born January 6, 1822 in Mecklenburg-Schwerin Germany and died on December 26, 1890, in Naples, Italy. Schliemann is most notably known for his discoveries of prehistoric Greece in his excavations of Troy, Mycenae, and Tiryns. For thousands of years, the search for the ancient city of Troy has never ceased, and in all that time, no one has ever been able to prove Homer’s sage of the Trojan War. There were three candidates for the location of Homeric Troy, the…

Crete. Knossos was in the center of the Minoan civilization. Sir Arthur Evans discovered stonework, paintings, and the first flush-toilet. The Mycenaean civilization first started on the large land of Greece. The Greek site Mycenae, was where Schliemann dug up gold in 1876. Mycenae was known to be “rich in gold”. Sometimes the Mycenaeans are known as the first Greeks, because they were the first to ever speak the Greek language. Later on, the Mycenaeans made their way over to Crete, destroying…

legendary King Minos, prompting Evans to name the civilization Minoan. Over the period of the next 25 years Evans pursued his investigations. Digging below the Bronze Age ruins, he came upon remains of a Neolithic civilization, thus helping to place Mycenae in historical…

Even though both men, played a huge role in ancient discovery, I believe Sir Arthur Evans discoveries were the most beneficial and helped us learn the most about the Aegean civilization. Through his findings, historians have been able to uncover more about these ancient civilizations. I choose Sir Arthur Evans for a couple of reasons. First, he discovered the the ancient capital of Knossos by digging up a palace. This finding allowed him to name the civilization Minoan. This was the…