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    Mycenaean Greece (or the Mycenaean civilization) was the last phase of the Bronze Age in ancient Greece, spanning the period from approximately 1750 to...
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    The religious element is difficult to identify in Mycenaean Greece (c. 1600–1100 BC), especially as regards archaeological sites, where it remains very...
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    cultural and perhaps political domination of the mainland Mycenaean Greeks, forming a hybrid culture which lasted until around 1100 BC. Minoan art included...
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    Mycenaean pottery is the pottery tradition associated with the Mycenaean period in Ancient Greece. It encompassed a variety of styles and forms including...
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  • civilizations Cycladic culture Epigraphy History of Greece History of religions History of writing Leiden Conventions Linear A Linear B Mycenaean religion Palaeography...
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    centered in Mycenae, to which the culture of this era owes its name, Tiryns, Pylos and Thebes. From the 15th century BC, Mycenaean power started expanding towards...
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    other symbols. Mycenaean Greek is the most ancient attested form of the Greek language, on the Greek mainland and Crete in Mycenaean Greece (16th to...
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  • hybrid Minoan-Mycenaean culture. Mycenaeans also colonized several other Aegean islands, reaching as far as Rhodes. Thus the Mycenaeans became the dominant...
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    Greek Dark Ages (category Mycenaean Greece)
    widespread famine and depopulation. In Greece, the Linear B script used by Mycenaean bureaucrats to write the Greek language ceased to be used, and the Greek...
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  • rubber balls. c. 1600 BC: Early Mycenaean culture: weapons, Cyclopean walls, and chariots. c. 1600 BC: Unetice culture ends in Czech Republic, eastern...
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    Minoan period. From c. 1450 BC (Late Helladic, Late Minoan), the Greek Mycenaean civilization spreads to Crete, probably by military conquest. The earlier...
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    north-western coast of Anatolia was inhabited by Greeks of the Achaean/Mycenaean culture from the 20th century BCE, related to the Greeks of southeastern Europe...
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  • early sublayers of Troy VII were contemporary with the late period of Mycenaean culture and the Hittite Empire. The later layers were contemporary with the...
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    in the 12th century BC. The proposed connection between Mycenaean culture and Philistine culture was further documented by finds at the excavation of Ashdod...
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    etymologically stems from kithara. The cithara originated from Minoan-Mycenaean swan-neck lyres developed and used during the Aegean Bronze Age. Scholars...
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    Nordic Bronze Age (category Archaeological cultures of Europe)
    Age Culture from 1500 BC onwards, basing itself on a Minoan/Mycenaean template." During the 15th–14th centuries BC the Nordic Bronze Age and Mycenaean Greece...
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    Historicity of the Iliad (category Articles containing Mycenaean Greek-language text)
    that this city was in fact a millennium too early to have coexisted with Mycenaean palaces. Since Schliemann, the site has been further excavated and reappraised...
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    Grave stelai from Grave Circle A, Mycenae (category Mycenaean tombs)
    characteristic of the Greek Mycenaean Period. Scholars argue that these scenes demonstrate the prevalence of warfare in Mycenaean culture, in addition to signifying...
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    Bees in mythology (category Bees in popular culture)
    "beehive tombs" of Mycenaean culture: While "beehive-shaped", there is no known explicit relationship to the bee mythology of Mycenaean Greece. One was illustrated...
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    Linear B (category Articles containing Mycenaean Greek-language text)
    Linear B. Linear B is a syllabic script that was used for writing in Mycenaean Greek, the earliest attested form of the Greek language. The script predates...
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    Poseidon (category Articles containing Mycenaean Greek-language text)
    uttered: "Mighty Potnia bore a strong son". In the heavily sea-dependent Mycenaean culture, there is not sufficient evidence that Poseidon was connected with...
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    to that of other contemporary cultures and later Ancient Greek art has been much discussed. It clearly dominated Mycenaean art and Cycladic art of the same...
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    of Greek culture. Before the Hellenic era, two major cultures had dominated the region: the Minoan (c. 2800 – c. 1100 BC), and the Mycenaean (c. 1500–1100...
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    Treasury of Atreus (category Mycenaean tombs)
    and that 'Mycenaean' civilisation (which then referred specifically to the period now designated as the Late Helladic). Mycenaean culture, they argued...
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    "Early Cycladic Art and Culture". Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 24 June 2022. Kontoleontos, Nickolaou (1961). Mycenaean Naxos, Cycladic Stydies...
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    Newgrange (category Boyne culture)
    and the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, as well as predating the Mycenaean culture of ancient Greece. Some put its period of construction somewhat later...
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    artificielles d’Héphaïstos : entre science et fiction », Techniques & Culture [En ligne], 43-44 | 2004 Wikimedia Commons has media related to Talos....
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    anywhere else in Mycenaean culture, and only a few of the bodies at Grave Sites bear masks. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mycenaean gold masks in...
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    art; the latter includes Cycladic art and the art of the Minoan and Mycenaean cultures from the Greek Bronze Age. The art of ancient Greece is usually divided...
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  • introducing Minoan ways to the mainland and forging Mycenaean culture," Davis said. Minoan civilization Mycenaean Greece Marchant, Jo. "This 3,500-Year-Old Greek...
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