03/01/2007 | Ruins of Mycenae

In the second millennium BC Mycenae was one of the major centres of Greek civilization, a military stronghold which dominated much of southern Greece. The period of Greek history from about 1600 BC to about 1100 BC is called Mycenaean in reference to Mycenae.

08:35 Posted in Greece, April 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0)