The site

Tiryns is a Mycenaean citadel in Argolis, on the Peloponnese, occupied from around 1600 to 1200 BCE and, by legend, the residence of Heracles during his labors. Its defining feature is the massive fortification that gave it the Homeric epithet "mighty walled" — masonry so colossal later Greeks credited it to the one-eyed Cyclopes. Inside stood a palace whose great megaron, with throne and central hearth ringed by columns, anchored one of the Mycenaean world's foremost centers.

Field notes

civilizations

Mycenaean

types

City

occupied

1,600 BCE — 1,200 BCE

country

Greece