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1. The Aegean c. 3000-1100 BCE Cycladic Civilization

2. Cyclades

3. Cycladic Civilization (c. 3000-11th century BCE)

4. Female Cycladic Idol, from Amorgos c.2700-2300 BCE Early Bronze Age

5. Figurine of a woman, from a grave in Syros, (Cyclades) Greece, (c. 2500-2300 BCE)

6. Male Cycladic flute player from Keros c.2700-2300 BCE Early Bronze Age

7. Male Lyre Player, from Keros (Cyclades) Greece, c. 2700-2500 BCE.

8. Minoan Civilization (c.3000-1100)

9. Reconstruction of the Palace of Knossos c. 1600-1400 BCE Reconstructed porticos of the north entrance passage with fresco Architect Dedalos It had such complexity that no one placed in it could ever find its exit.

11. Minoan Woman or goddess, from the palace at Knossos, Crete, Greece, c. 1450-1400 BCE

12. Toreador Fresco, from Knossos, Crete. (c. 1500 BCE) Minoan Civilization

14. br />The Queen’s megaron, Palace of Minos, Knossos, Crete, c. 1600-1400BCE Minoan period

15. View of the “Throne Room” Palace of Minos, Knossos, Crete(c.1600-1400 BCE) Minoan

16. Theran Volcano Eruption 1628 BCE. Major climatic change from Greenland to Egypt.

17. Landscape with swallows (Spring Fresco), from Delta 2, Akrotiri, Thera, Cyclades, Greece, c. 1650 BCE

18. Snake Goddess, from Knossos, Crete c. 1600 BCEMinoan

20. UpperPart of the Harvester Vase, from HagiaTriada, Crete(c. 1650-1450) BCEMinoan

21. Octopus Vase, from Palaikastro, Crete, (c. 1500) BCE Minoan

23. Ship Fresco, from Akrotiri, Thera, (c. 1500-1650) BCE Theran

26. Papyrela, boats made from papyrus

27. Boxing Children, from Akrotiri, Thera, (c. 1650-1500) BCE Minoan/ Theran

28. Mycenaean Civilization (c. 3000-1100 BCE)

29. 1300-1200 BCE - Trojan War (?) 750-700 BCE - Homer writes Iliad &Odyssey

30. Goddess from the Citadel of Mycenae, (c. 1200 BCE) Mycenaean Crocus Gatherer, from Thera, Pre 1500 BCE Theran

31. Inlaid dagger blade with lion hunt, from Grave Circle A, Mycenae, Greece, c. 1600-1650,.

32. Mask of Agamemnon, from Mycenaean c. 1500 BCE, Mycenaean

33. Minoan and Mycenaean cups, from Vapheio. (c. 16th Century BCE) Minoan or Mycenaean or both

34. c. 1340 BCE c. 1250 BCE c. 1200 BCE

35. House of Commons megaron Postern Gate Great Ramp Lions’ Gate Grave Circle A Warrior Vase house

36. Cyclopean walls, 25 feet wide, 30 feet high

37. Three Methods of Spanning passageways Post and Lintel Corbelled Arch Round Arch, already Popular in the Near East.

39. Treasury of Atreus Entrance c. 1300-1200 BCE

40. Inside the Atreus Tomb, cyclopean, roofed with corbelled vault built up with regular courses or layers of ashlar, perfectly cut blocks of stones smoothly moving inward and carefully calculated to meet in a single capstone, top most stone that joins sides and meets in the center forming a peak.

41. Entrance to nine Tholoi. Ancient tombs in the citadel at Mycenae

42. Lion Gate, Mycenae 1300 BCE, Mycenae