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Archaeological sites of Mycenae

General views

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5000 to 200 BC, mostly visible is Late Bronze Age

Main Archaeological site

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Object location37° 43′ 51.23″ N, 22° 45′ 16.99″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMapinfo

In order according to the progress of the trip, although at the cost of turns.

Lion Gate

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Object location37° 43′ 50.9″ N, 22° 45′ 23.34″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMapinfo

1250 BC

Grave Circle A

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Object location37° 43′ 49.84″ N, 22° 45′ 23.36″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMapinfo

16th-century BC royal cemetery

Behind the Grave Circle A

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Between the main way and the southern walls

From Great ramp to Palace

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Around the main way through the area

Royal Palace

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Object location37° 43′ 49.12″ N, 22° 45′ 27.9″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMapinfo

13th century BC, on the site of the center from the 3rd millennium BC

Northeast extension

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= Eastern part of main area

Eastern gate

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= Northeastern gate. According to legend, this way Orestes fled, when he killed the treacherous Klytaimnestre and Aigisthos.

Great cistern

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Camera location37° 43′ 50.94″ N, 22° 45′ 33.98″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMapinfo

Underground cistern, 99 steps to a cistern carved out of rock

From cistern to North gate

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North gate

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Object location37° 43′ 50.76″ N, 22° 45′ 30.63″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMapinfo

= Postern gate

From the outside

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From the inside

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Lion Tomb

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In front of the Archaeological Museum

Object location37° 43′ 53.76″ N, 22° 45′ 19.88″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMapinfo

West part of area

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Near the access road, before (below) the Lion Gate

Tomb of Aegisthus

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Object location37° 43′ 50.48″ N, 22° 45′ 20.26″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMapinfo

Tomb of Clytemnestra

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Object location37° 43′ 50.39″ N, 22° 45′ 18.18″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMapinfo

1250 BC was the last tomb of this type in the region

Grave Circle B

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Object location37° 43′ 50.67″ N, 22° 45′ 17.46″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMapinfo

Mostly 17th–16th century BC Royal cemetery situated outside the Late Bronze Age citadel of Mycenae

Treasury of Atreus

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Object location37° 43′ 36.53″ N, 22° 45′ 14.36″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMapinfo

1250 BC, the stone lintel above the doorway weighs 120 tons, with dimensions 8.3 x 5.2 x 1.2 m

Interior

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Interior height of 13.5 m and a diameter of 14.5 m

Burial chamber

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Other Tombs

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Outside the main area

Contemporary Mykines

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