In Mycenae are the imposing ruins of one of the two larger cities of the Mycenaean civilization which are preserved (with Tyrins), which dominated the Eastern Mediterranean at the end of the bronze age from the XVth to the XIIth century before J-C.
It has an essential rule in the development of the culture of ancient Greece, with a deep impact on the development of the traditional Greek architecture and city planning.
Mycenae is related to the Homeric stories of Iliad and Odyssey.
According to mythology, it was founded by Perseus and was the kingdom of the King Agamemnon told by Homer, who was the King of the Greek Kings who went to besiege Troy.
Homer designated this people as "Achaean".
Whereas it had become only myth and legend in the Greek collective conscience, Mycenaean was revealed in 1876 by the excavations of Schliemann. Later, discoveries revealed that the site was inhabited at the third millennium before our era by a prehellenic population near the Minoan civilization from Crete.
The site of Mycenae represents an architecture and a design of great interest, with for example, the gate of the Lionesses. The city was surrounded of Cyclopean wall. A large tomb (photo opposite) was discovered in Mycenae outside the enclosure. It was known without any information in this sense as the tomb of Agamemnon.
