Mycenae Tours & Tickets

Mycenae was the legendary home of Agamemnon, the Greek commander of the Trojan War immortalized in Homer's epics.

The famous Lion Gate, built around 1250 BCE, is the oldest monumental sculpture in Europe and still stands at the entrance to the citadel.

Heinrich Schliemann's 1876 excavations at Mycenae uncovered the Mask of Agamemnon, a gold funeral mask that revolutionized understanding of Bronze Age Greece.

The citadel's massive 'Cyclopean' stone walls are so large that ancient Greeks believed only the mythical Cyclops could have built them.

Mycenae thrived during the Late Bronze Age (1600–1100 BCE) and mysteriously collapsed around 1100 BCE, marking the end of an entire civilization.

The Treasury of Atreus, the best-preserved beehive tomb at Mycenae, has a 14.6-metre-wide entrance arch built without mortar or keystone that still stands intact.