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Mycenae (/ m aɪ ˈ s iː n iː / my-SEE-nee; [2] Mycenaean Greek: 𐀘𐀏𐀙𐀂; Ancient Greek: Μυκῆναι or Μυκήνη, Mykē̂nai or Mykḗnē) is an archaeological site near Mykines in Argolis, north-eastern Peloponnese, Greece.
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The area is the site of some small farms, as well as the Aspinall Tree Nursery.Some local homes are large, while others are more modest. The Greek Revival style Mycenae Schoolhouse, built 1850, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
The presence of Ahhiyawa in western Anatolia is mentioned in various Hittite accounts from c. 1400 to c. 1220 BC. [48] Ahhiyawa is generally accepted as a Hittite term for Mycenaean Greece ( Achaeans in Homeric Greek), but a precise geographical definition of the term cannot be drawn from the texts. [ 53 ]
The Lion Gate (Greek: Πύλη των Λεόντων) is the popular modern name for the main entrance of the Bronze Age citadel of Mycenae in Southern Greece.It was erected during the thirteenth century BC, around 1250 BC, in the northwestern side of the acropolis.
Mycena haematopus, commonly known as the bleeding fairy helmet, the burgundydrop bonnet, or the bleeding Mycena, is a species of fungus in the family Mycenaceae, of the order Agaricales.
Mycena rubroglobulosa, Wellington, New Zealand. The blue pixies' parasol (Mycena interrupta) growing on a log in East Gippsland (). Mycena seynesii. Mycena is a large genus of small saprotrophic mushrooms that are rarely more than a few centimeters in width.
Mycenaean Greek is the most ancient attested form of the Greek language, on the Greek mainland and Crete in Mycenaean Greece (16th to 12th centuries BC), before the hypothesised Dorian invasion, often cited as the terminus ad quem for the introduction of the Greek language to Greece.