GREECE PELOPONNESE ARGOLIS TIRYNS ACROPOLIS

Around 1200 BC the citadel of Tiryns was apparently destroyed by an earthquake and subsequent fire, although the actual causes of the nearly simultaneous destruction of all Mycenaean centres may never be fully known.

Above: Openings in the fortification wall. - Below left: Wall of the Lower Citadel in the Northwest. - Below right: An interesting solution to stabilize Cyclopean walls.

Above right: Stones of another circular structure were excavated in the Lower Citadel in 2022.

Above left: Floor decoration at the North Gate. - Below left: Cyclopean walls near the North Gate.

Above right and below: The Mycenaean settlement with shaft graves outside the citadel walls. Occupation continued in this area after the destruction of the citadel, where a temple of Hera was built in the 8th century BC and used as a fort in the 6th century BC and Hellenistic times, when its defensive wall was repaired. When Pausanias visited the site during the 2nd century AD it had become deserted.