Archaeological site of Mycenae
Bronze Age citadel ruins entered through a lion-crowned gate, beside a circle of royal shaft graves.
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This guide to the Archaeological site of Mycenae, near Nafplio, stands you beside the royal grave circle inside the Lion Gate in November eighteen seventy-six, with Heinrich Schliemann waiting out a rain-soaked pause in his dig. It follows the ancient travel writer Pausanias, the Agamemnon of the Trojan War myths, and the Greek official watching every shovel. Best heard at the rail above the circle of graves, with the lions behind you.
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