The Mycenaeans

by Louise Schofield and SCHOFIELD LOUISE

For almost three thousand years, the Mycenaeans, ancestors of the classical Greeks, lay lost and forgotten beneath the soil of Greece. In 1876, however, a German businessman, Heinrich Schliemann, in his search for the great Mycenaean king Agamemnon and other heroes of the Trojan War, made an astounding discovery in Mycenae: inside the monumental Lion Gate he discovered shaft graves belonging to a warrior elite, many of whom were buried wearing striking...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892368675
• ISBN13: 9780892368679
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.8" x 9.5"