Timeline of the Mycenaeans
3000-2000 BC: First inhabitation of the Mycenae area.
c. 2100 BC: First evidence of building structures at Mycenae.
c. 1900 BC: First recorded settlement at Eleusis.
c. 1700-1600 BC
- Mycenaean Period begins.
- First shaft graves constructed at Mycenae.
- Mycenae at its peak of influence:
- First palace structure and Treasury of Atreus tomb built.
- Linear B script in use.
- First tholos tombs built.
- Gold death masks (including that of “Agamemnon”) made.
c. 1550 BC: Sphinxes represented in Mycenaean art, particularly in pottery and ivory carving.
c. 1500-1400 BC
- Minoan Palatial period superseded by Mycenaean.
- Mycenaean monumental architecture first appears at Epidaurus.
- Mycenaean influence extended to Knossos, Crete.
1400-1300 BC
- Mycenaean palace architecture at Tiryns and Argos.
- Mycenaean fortifications, palaces, and tombs constructed at Argos.
- Rhodes has significant contact with the Mycenaean civilization.
- Culture in the Cyclades increasingly influenced by Mycenaean civilization.
- First evidence of a cult to Dionysos in Mycenaean culture.
c. 1300 BC
(c)JoyofMuseums - First palace destroyed at Mycenae and repaired, Lion Gate added, and fortifications extended.
- Cyclopean stone bridge built near Mycenae.
1300-1200 BC
- Mycenaean Tiryns is at the height of its importance.
- Mycenaean chamber tombs constructed at Thebes.
c. 1200 BC
- Earthquake severely damages Tiryns.
- Second palace destroyed at Mycenae, city begins to decline.
c. 1200-1100 BC
- Mycenaean Period ends.
- Argos takes over from Mycenae as most important regional power in the Argolid.
- Mycenaean Epidaurus at its peak of prosperity.
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