Lion Gate

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Architecture · c. 1250 BC · Mycenae · Europe

The only large Bronze Age Greek sculpture still standing where it was placed

Lion Gate — Andreas Trepte · CC BY-SA 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons

Style: Aegean art — A maritime Bronze Age: lively frescoes of Minoan Crete and the Cyclopean walls of Mycenae
Century: 13th century BC

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