Place: Mycenae, Greece
Weather: Partly cloudy early then periods of light rain, 55/71F.
Route: From Olympia 150 km east on EO111.
Significance: The Mycenaean civilization was the Bronze age (1600-1100 BC) civilization that was a precursor of the classical Greek civilization. These were the people who inspired Homer to write is Iliad and the Odyssey. Their fortifications used stones so large that the later Greeks thought they had been built by cyclops.
Images:
The Lion Gate - built in approximately 1250 BC. (from whc.unesco.org)
Tomb of Clytemnestra - also from 1250 BC (from whc.unesco.org)
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