Mycenae

Mycenaean · Greece

Field notes

civilizations

Mycenaean

types

City · Village

built

1,350 BCE — 1,200 BCE

occupied

1,600 BCE — 1,100 BCE

visitors

495,993 / year

country

Greece

The site

Mycenae is a fortified Mycenaean citadel set on a hill in the north-eastern Peloponnese of Greece, north of Argos. In the second millennium BCE it was one of the great centres of Greek civilization, a military stronghold dominating much of southern Greece and the Aegean. So central was it that the whole era from about 1600 to 1100 BCE is named Mycenaean; at its peak around 1350 BCE its citadel and lower town held some 30,000 people.

Nearby sites

~15 km

Tiryns

~22 km

Ancient Corinth

~32 km

Epidaurus

~77 km

Elefsina