Mycenae's miracle; Ancient Greece.

The Economist (US) | March 11, 2006| | Copyright

GOLD loot and a bloody ancient family feud make Mycenae, a fortified hill in the Peloponnese, unique among Greece's Bronze Age sites. The visible remains are impressive too--walls made of giant boulders, a 3,500-year-old sculpture of stone lions in heraldic pose above the main gateway and nine outsize beehive-style tombs where prehistoric rulers were buried.

Yet many visitors come away feeling confused, not least because the museum that was recently built next to the ruins contains none of the dazzling gold artefacts from graves dug up in the 19th and 20th ...

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