Whilst Homer's 'Iliad' recounts the overthrow of King Priam of Troy by Agamemnon of Mycenae, his 'Odyssey' documents the latter's murder by Aegisthus, the lover of his wife Clytemnestra.

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Another interpretation of the Mycenaean warrior vase, though I would think with all that bronze scale you'd be able to spare some for a helmet, unless its a sort of brigantine rather than riveted linen laminate.... who knows

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interpreting more Mycenaean spearmen from the warrior vase

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One hundred years ago today, former Director Alan began his excavations at To celebrate this landmark anniversary we have been collaborating with and to digitise the excavation records from Wace's excavations at the site.

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sonia's turn! a fun fact, back in ye olden days of mycenae, depictions of goddesses and other beautiful women would have red suns on their cheeks and foreheads as well as a lot of dark eyeliner. they'd also be titty-out, but this is a pg-13 twitter

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Thread: Some questions about "The Griffin Warrior tomb". The Griffin Warrior Tomb is a Bronze Age, Mycenaean shaft tomb dating to around 1450 BC, which was discovered near the ancient city of Pylos in Greece. This is what the content of the tomb looked like:

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finally I found a place in comics for my favorite mycenaean octopuses

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For those of you who saw my mid-score tweets, here's what I was yelling about

A demigod in Mycenaean panoply cooked Lou's brain with lightning and made them see THE SUN. Or so Lou thinks, anyway. Now their eyes glow and they can't stop drawing star charts on the ceiling

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I LOVE these Athena and Hera in Mycenaean Greek Outfits... can we please have Helen and Clytemnestra in thIs

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I’m actually drawing!

Something from my ancient art history notes, we were talking about Mycenaean Greek art.

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