Take a look at the megalithic construction of Mycenaean
walls and
tombs, or see a (somewhat
speculative) reconstruction of the
palace at Pylos.
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A full set of armor from the
Mycenaean period has been discovered at Dendra; you will see
that it included a helmet made of boars' teeth, rather than
the Corinthian helmet (from the
Archaic period), in which later artists frequently depicted
Homeric warriors.
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The centralized economy of the palaces produced
archives of administrative
documents, written in Linear B (the language is Greek;
the script is referred to as Linear B).
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Mycenaean artisans produced, among other things, a
variety of figurines,
frescoes, intricate
gold work, decorated
swords, and
fine pottery. After the
destruction of Mycenaean palace culture, there was a marked
decrease in population and the quality of artistic
production diminished seriously. In fact, for two hundred
years there was no figural art; the
return of figural art is heralded in the appearance of a
horse on a 10th century ceramic pot.
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