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Mycenae
FranchthiCave
Crete
CycladicIslands
Troy
Minoan and Mycenaean Greece
Franchthi Cave in Southern Greece
40,000 BCE Seasonal Habitation12,000 BCE End of Ice Age (Paleolithic Pd)
Hunter Gatherers6,000 BCE (Neolithic Pd): Domesticated Animal,
Pottery and Bead Industry
Cycladic Idols 3000-2000 BCE
Cycladic Idol3000-2000 BCE
Cycladic Idols
Flute Player(left)
Harp Player(right)
Cycladic Bear (Island of Syros)2300-2100 BCE
Neolithic cup before the use of the potter’s wheel (c.2200 BCE)
Neolithic 3700-3300 BCE(above)
Neolithic “Sauce Boats”2500-2200 BCE
Grey Minyan Ware First Wheel Made Potteryon Mainland Greece ca 2200 BCE
Palace at Knossos(top left & bot. right)
Pasiphae and theMinotaur (her son by By King Minos) (left)
Bull’s Head Rhyton(cup) from Knossos(above, right)
Sir Arthur Evans(1851-1941) openedExcavation on Crete
Palace at Knossos (Crete)ca 2000-1700 BCE
Knossos Royal Bedroom1600-1400 BCE (above, left)
Minoan Statuettes from Knossos ca 1600 BCE (left)
Minoan 1500-1450 (above)
Cycladic ca.2000-1550 BCE
Minoan ca.1550-1500(below)
Minoan Gold Bee Pendant1700-1550 BCE
Minoan Mistress of Animals1700-1550 BCE
Linear B Script
Mycenae Lion Gate c.1250 BCE
Palace Column Base
Walled Citadel of Mycenae
Palace Column Capitals
Early Mycenaean VaseExported to Knossos (Crete) ca 1450 (below)
Minoan Vase ca 1400Mycenaean influence
View from the Citadel of Mycenae
Mycenae from the Air
Masks and a Dagger BladeFrom Grave Circle A 1550-1500 BCE
Mycenaean Dagger Blades
Mycenaean TholosTombs 14th century
Mycenaean Figurines
Mycenaean Hedge-hog 16th-15th cent.
Mycenaean Stirrup Jars
Three MycenaeanCups and a Pitcher(oinochoe)
Minoan 1600-1500(bottom center)
Mycenaean (top left &right, bottom right)
Mycenaean Crater (above)13th Century
Mycenaean Crater (right)12th Century
Heinrich (above) and Sophie (right)SchliemannGold vessel from Troy (left)
Medieval German WoodcutsImages of Troy
Chiron and the Young Achilles(19th cent. engraving by Henri Daumier)
SubmycenaeanVases ca 1100-950 BCE