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Tiryns , ancient city of Greece, in the NE Peloponnesus, 2.5 mi (4 km) N of Nauplia (now Návplion) and near Argos. The site seems to have been inhabited since the 3d millennium BC It was a city of splendor from c.1600 to c.1100 BC Excavations begun by Heinrich Schliemann and Wilhelm Dörpfeld in 1884–85 revealed not only extensive pre-Homeric palaces of the Mycenaean period but also remains going far back in prehistory. The old city was prominent in Greek legend.

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Tiryns

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Tiryns, ancient Greek city in the southern part of the plain of Argos, inhabited from the early Bronze Age (before 2200 BC). The huge Cyclopean walls, built c.1400 BC of roughly hewn blocks of stone, are still standing (see CYCLOPES). The city is associated in myth with Mycenae, some fifteen kilometres to the north, and with the story of Heracles.

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