The Bronze Age

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  • Bronze Age
    a prehistoric period when certain weapons and tools came to be made of bronze rather than stone.
  • Cyclopean architecture
    a type of stonework found in Mycenaean architecture, built with massive, typically uncorked, limestone boulders, roughly fitted together with minimal clearance between adjacent stones with clay mortar.
  • Megaron
    a great rectangular hall in early Mycenaean and ancient Greek palace complexes; surrounded by four columns, fronted by an open, two-columned portico, with a central open hearth venting thought an oculus in the roof 
  • Tholos tombs
    a round, beehive shaped tomb structure; conical chambers with subterranean burial chambers
  • Temple/Palace of Knossos
    Crete, Greece, Minoan Culture, ca 1450 BCE
  • City of Mycenae
    Argolis, Greece, Mycenaeans, ca 1350 BCE
  • Lion Gate
    Mycenae, Greece, Mycenaeans, ca 1300 BCE
  • Tiryns
    Argolis, Greece, Mycenaeans 
  • Pylos Megaron
    Pylos, Greece, Mycenaean, ca 1450 BCE
  • Treasury of Atreus
    Mycenae, Greece, Mycenaean, c 1400 BC