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The Archaeological Site of Mycenae

MYCENAE (Mycenean palace) ARGOLIS
The Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns are imposing ruins of the two greatest cities of the Mycenaean civilisation which dominated the eastern Mediterranean world in the 15th to 12th centuries BC and which played a vital role in the development of the culture of classical Greece. These two cities are indissolubly linked to the Homeric epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, which have influenced European art and literature for more than three millennia.

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