The Tombs at Mycenae

and the items from the Museum recovered from the tombs

beads from Mycenae tombs

There are links between the Thera paintings and such items as earrings, necklaces, and metal vessels found in the royal Shaft Graves at Mycenae. Thera itself, however, had few valuables like metal; apparently the inhabitants had taken prized objects away. The Shaft Graves, in contrast, were packed with gold, silver, and bronze—almost nomadic in the obvious preference for portable gold and weapons.

The Stronghold

Mycenae rich in gold

The House of Atreus

Homer tells us that the most powerful king among the Greeks at Troy was Agamemnon who ruled from his mighty fortress at Mycenae, “rich in gold.”  The story of Agamemnon and how he came to be king is convoluted, to say the least, so you are really going to have to pay attention.  There is plenty of sex and violence. 

Mycenaean civilization

Principal Mycenaean sites in Greece. The Mycenaean civilization flourished during the period roughly between 1600 BC, when Helladic culture in mainland Greece was transformed under influences from Minoan Crete, and 1100 BC, when it perished with the collapse of Bronze-Age civilization in the eastern Mediterranean. The collapse is commonly attributed to the Dorian invasion, although other theories describing natural disasters and climate change have been advanced as well. The major Mycenaean cities were Mycenae and Tiryns in Argolis, Pylos in Messenia, Athens in Attica, Thebes and Orchomenus in Boeotia, and Iolkos in Thessaly. In Crete, the Mycenaeans occupied Knossos. Mycenaean settlement sites also appeared in Epirus,[2] Macedonia,[3] on islands in the Aegean Sea, on the coast of Asia Minor, the Levant,[4] Cyprus and Italy. Mycenaean artifacts with Linear B inscriptions have been also found as far away as Germany,Mycenaean swords as far away as Georgia in the Caucasus[10] and Mycenaean bronze double axes and other objects dating from 13th century BCE have been found in Ireland and in Wessex and Cornwall in England.

Mycenae

Mycenae (Greek Μυκῆναι Mykēnai or Μυκήνη Mykēnē), is an archaeological site in Greece, located about 90 km south-west of Athens, in the north-eastern Peloponnese. Argos is 11 km to the south; Corinth, 48 km to the north. From the hill on which the palace was located one can see across the Argolid to the Saronic Gulf.