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The corbelled passage that trapped Mycenae inside its own cistern
Mycenae’s palace folds its royal dead into the walls and carves a 99-step tunnel to a cistern-what struck Mycenae's heart?
The corbelled passage that trapped Mycenae inside its own cistern
In this episode we lay out the physical and material story of Mycenae at its height and through the crises that followed. We trace the constructions, grave rituals, foreign links, and two destructive fires to ask how a peer of Bronze Age empires could be lost from memory.
Person: Heinrich Schliemann
Date: c. 1350-1100 BC (citadel peak and decline)
Location: Mycenae, Argive plain (274 m above sea level, 19…
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