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Site of Mycenean fortifications, Greece, c1600-1100 BC. The Mycenaeans were a Bronze Age civilization in the Aegean who reached the peak of their achievements in around 1400 BC. The city of Mycenae in the Peloponnese was reputed to be the capital of the legendary king Agamemnon. It was excavated in the 1870s by the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann.