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Posted on 06/06/2014 5:53:35 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Mycenae -- the ancient city of the legendary King Agamemnon, best known from Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and its iconic Lion Gate and cyclopean defensive walls, has long fascinated scholars and site visitors alike with the epic proportions of its imposing citadel remains...
But there is another Mycenae -- one known for centuries from ancient historical documents -- which has nevertheless eluded the eyes of archaeologists, historians, and tourists. One might call it "Greater Mycenae", the Lower Town. It is invisible because most of it still lies undetected, unexcavated, below the surface. In its heyday it was a second millenium BC version of urban sprawl that served as a vital element of the ancient city's florescence...
Geophysical surveys utilizing remote sensing technology in the area surrounding the citadel revealed substantial evidence of hidden walls, structures, gates, roads and other features of a possible urban center surrounding it on its south, west and north sides...
Ground proof excavations confirmed the geophysical findings. Uncovered thus far were Mycenean-period features that included a long retaining wall possibly connected to a gate, a wall possibly connected with an outer fortification wall of the Lower Town, two buildings, and an apsidal structure.
Overlaying the Mycenean features were post-Mycenean findings that included Geometric Period structures such as a pottery/ivory workshop with a cistern, a multi-room house with a courtyard and containing three infant burials under the floor of a room, two circular structures, and a 9th century B.C. cist grave. The cist grave, which contained the skeletal remains of a young woman, consisted of funerary meal remains, an iron pin found on the right shoulder-blade, an iron ring found around a phalanx of the right hand, and five clay vases and a cup placed around the body.
(Excerpt) Read more at popular-archaeology.com ...
They were priapic, and would, uh, use whatever was available; the epics just report what was commonplace. :’)
For good B-movie fun, though, it's tough to beat the clanging swords and heaving bosoms of the Italian sword and sandals.
What would you say the dates are for this general collapse including the flooding of the crop lands?
The conventional pseudochronology puts it in 1200 BC; it postdates the Trojan War, which couldn’t have been before the 8th c BC.
The dubbed ones? Things like “Dragon’s Blood” used to be on afternoon broadcast TV back in the 1960s, when I was a kid. There were 40 thieves and other genie movies, besides the original “Clash of the Titans” (and others by that director). Lots of fun.
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