Today, Mycenae is a tourist attraction but the power and majesty of the once great city can still be appreciated; the entrance through the city walls is called the Lions Gate and is suggestive of an Egyptian motif; the circular burial pits are where the famed, but perhaps misnamed, death mask of Agamemnon was found.
Mycenaean ceramics and statuary are very distinctive and have elements of Minoan influence; on the southern side of the city is a pyramidal shaped mountain and not far from the city walls is the conical Treasury of Atreus.
Mycenae is a short bus trip from Corinth and I suggest that you make an effort to visit this lost kingdom when you visit Greece.
The Lions Gate
The wall at the entrance to the city
Looking east just inside the entrance to the city
One of the circular burial pits
The entrance to the Treasury of Atreus
The stone walls at the entrance to the Treasury of Atreus
The death mask of Agamemnon
A rhyton
A bowl with fish
A krater with a bull and a plant
A rhyton with what appears to be a hedgehog
A terracotta ox
A krater with bulls, fish, flowers and trees
A krater with a cuttlefish