Mycenae
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"If England may justly boast of her Stonehenge as the noblest monument of its kind now existing, Ireland can, with equal reason, feel proud of the sepulchral tumulus of New Grange-a monument of human labour only exceeded in grandeur by the tomb of Agamemnon at Mycenæ, or the pyramids of the Egyptian kings, to both of which it is so nearly allied in many of its general characteristics, and which, in point of antiquity, it probably rivals, or even possibly exceeds."--The Shrines and Sepulchres of the Old and New World (1851) by Richard Robert Madden |
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Mycenae (Greek is an archaeological site in Greece, located about 90 km south-west of Athens, in the north-eastern Peloponnese. Argos is 6 km to the south; Corinth, 48 km to the north. From the hill on which the palace was located one can see across the Argolid to the Saronic Gulf.
