Reynold Higgins

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In addition, certain monuments from the Bronze Age had never been lost to sight, as for example the Cyclopean Walls and the Lion Gate at Mycenae, and the Treasury of Atreus near by; and there is a growing body of evidence that many Mycenaean tombs were venerated from the eight century BC onwards as the restingplaces of heroes.
Then, about 1550 BC the Greek Mainland adopted Cretan culture, which continued to flourish in its homeland. About 1450 BC the hegemony passed from Crete to Mainland Greece under the leadership of Mycenae. The fourteenth and thirteenth centuries are known as the Mycenaean empire. Political power was henceforth vested in the Mainland but the art was essentially Cretan.