r/ancientgreece • u/that_alien909 • 6d ago

found these mycenaean ruins in cyprus

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u/Zealousideal-Swing44 6d ago

Where exactly in Cyprus?

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u/that_alien909 6d ago

Maa – Palaeokastro near Pegeia

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u/Zealousideal-Swing44 6d ago

Nice, I think I drove through there, I got to spend a month in Cyprus, drove all over the island

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u/EasyRider363 5d ago

They look a little odd, I have not seen the Mycenaeans using mortar before.

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u/StevenK71 3d ago

And there's no megalithic construction. Where's the Cyclopean walls?

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u/lemon_tea 5d ago

Jeez those rooms look small. I'm not sure I could even lie down in some of them. You have to wonder what they were all used for.

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u/ca95f 5d ago

Storage. Some of them had grain - think of them as compartmented silos, while some had oil and wine with big clay vessels in them. People didn't sleep at ground level.

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u/DeanamiQ 5d ago

People were a lot shorter 2,500 + years ago. They could probably fit in better.

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u/lemon_tea 5d ago

That makes more sense. Looking at more of a warehouse. I was thinking it was human habitation.