What is Mycenae?
{{Infobox ancient site |name = Mycenae |native_name = Μυκῆναι<br>Μυκήνη |alternate_name = |image = Lions-Gate-Mycenae.jpg |alt = |caption = The [[Lion Gate]] at Mycenae, the only known monumental sculpture of Bronze Age Greece |map_type = Greece |map_alt = |coordinates = {{Coord|37.730792|N|22.756382|E|type:landmark_region:GR_scale:2000| display=title}} |location = [[Argolis]], Greece |region = |type = Settlement |part_of = |length = |width = |area = |height = |builder = |material = |built = |abandoned = |epochs = [[Bronze Age]] |cultures = [[Ancient Greece]] |dependency_of = |occupants = |event = |excavations = |archaeologists = |condition = |ownership = |management = |public_access = |website = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} --> |notes = | designation1 = WHS | designation1_offname = Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and [[Tiryns]] | designation1_date = 1999 <small>(23rd [[World Heritage Committee|session]])</small> | designation1_number = [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/941 941] | designation1_criteria = i, ii, iii, iv, vi | designation1_type = Cultural | designation1_free1name = State Party | designation1_free1value = [[Greece]] | designation1_free2name = Region | designation1_free2value = [[List of World Heritage Sites in Europe|Europe and North America]] }} [[Image:Mycenae lion gate dsc06382.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The Lion gate at Mycenae]] [[Image:Replicas of Mycenaean swords and cups.jpg|250px|thumb|Mycenaean swords and cups]] '''Mycenae''' ([[Greek language|Greek]] {{lang|grc|Μυκῆναι}} ''Mykēnai'' or {{lang|grc|Μυκήνη}} ''Mykēnē''), is an [[archaeology|archaeological site]] in [[Greece]]. It is about 90&nbsp;km south-west of [[Athens]], in the north-eastern [[Peloponnese]]. In the second [[millennium]] [[BC]], Mycenae was one of the most important centers of early Greek [[civilization]] with a strong army. The time of [[Greece|Greek history]] from about 1600 BC to about 1100 BC is called [[Mycenaean Greece]]. == People == The Mycenaean