Mycenaean architecture

Current research on the ancient Greek city of Knossos in Crete suggests that it not only recovered from the Bronze Age collapse that brought down many of the Aegean palaces, but actually flourished into the Early Iron Age.

Thus the Mycenaeans became the dominant power of the region, marking the beginning of the Mycenaean 'Koine' era (from Greek: Κοινή, common), a highly uniform culture that spread in mainland Greece and the Aegean.-A typical Mykenean watchtower, c. 1300 BCE, Peter Conolly

Between 3500 and 1500 BC a very attractive and rather mysterious civilization developed and then vanished on the island of Crete in the southern Aegean Sea. In Greek myth the ruler of this realm wa…

Have you not heard Minoan Civilization or King Minos before? Read my intro on Minoan Crete. Few words on Knossos Palace and Minoan Art culture & mythology.

History of Architecture

Minoan and Mycenaean Art - Reconstruction of Mycenae citadel