"Built by giants time out of mind ago: Mykenai" Karenmw's photos around Olympia, Greece

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Preview of Karenmw's blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Olympia, Greece Entry Title: "Built by giants time out of mind ago: Mykenai" Entry: "The Mycenaean empire had its zenith between 1600 and 1100 BCE, and were obviously (as styles of artwork attest) strongly influenced by the preceding Minoan civilization. Before I go on about what we saw, some explanation of terms I've been using such as "classical period," "archaic period" etc., courtesy of this website www.greeklandscapes.com istory.html : Stone Age (circa 400000 - 3000 BCE) Paleolithic (circa 400000 - 13000 BP Mesolithic (circa 10000 - 7000 BCE Neolithic (circa 7000 - 3000 BCE) Bronze Age (circa 3300 - 1150 BCE) Cycladic (circa 3300 - 2000 BCE) Minoan (circa 2600 - 1200 BCE) Helladic (circa 2800 - 1600 BCE) Mycenaean or Late Helladic (circa 1600 - 1100 BCE) Dark Ages (circa 1100 - 700 BCE) Archaic (circa 700 - 480 BCE) Classical (480 - 323 BCE) Hellenistic (323 - 30 BCE) Roman (146 BCE - 330 CE) Byzantine (330 - 1453 CE) More info on the Wiki here -- en.wikipedia.org eece "Prehistoric" literally means before literacy, something that was gained in ancient Greece, sometime during the Minoan era, then lost in the dark ages, and regained when Archaic Greeks adopted a Phoenician alphabet, the root of Greek writing, both ancient and modern, that we know now. The citadel of Mykenai is perched on <b>...</b>

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