History essay, compare different time period

From Palaikastro: Marine-style octopus flask, ca. 1500 BCE

Harvesters Vase, from Hagia Triada, ca. 1500 BCE. Steatite, with gold leaf; bottom is reconstructed.

View from sea of Thera (Santorini), a volcanic island north of Crete

View toward caldera of volcano and emerging island of hardened lava

Street with houses, Akrotiri (pre-1628 BCE)

Collapsed staircase

Inside of house, Akrotiri

Brazier, above, and storage jar, right. From Akrotiri, covered by eruption of volcano, 1628 BCE

Plaster cast of bed frame (and some cordage), from house at Akrotiri

From Akrotiri (Thera), young fisherman, before 1628 BCE

From Akrotiri (Thera), young woman, gathering crocus flowers (before 1628 BCE)

From Akrotiri (Thera): Spring fresco, before 1628 BCE

From Akrotiri (Thera): Ship flotilla fresco, showing overseas expedition (before 1628 BCE)

View of citadel of Mycenae

Plan, citadel of Mycenae: 1) entrance (Lion Gate) 2) Grave Circle A 3) Megaron 4) Redoubt with sally port and hidden spring Ca. 1300 BCE

H. Schliemann and friends at Lion Gate, Mycenae

Lion Gate, Mycenae, and projecting bastion at right

Entrance to Megaron of palace at Mycenae

View to south over existing remains of Megaron (hearth is under tarp) to plain of Argos

Reconstruction of Megaron of Pylos (Palace of Nestor)

View of Grave Circle A at Mycenae, enclosed Shaft Graves, ca. 1600 BCE

Reconstructed drawing of Grave Circle A, with retaining wall and stelai

From Shaft Graves: Mask of “Agamemnon,” ca. 1600 BCE

From Shaft Graves: funerary sheets of gold for a child’s body

Lion Rhyton, from Shaft Graves, Mycenae

Inlaid daggers, from Shaft Graves, Mycenae. Now in National Museum, Athens.

Bronze blade with lion hunt in a Minoan style, inlaid gold, silver, and electrum, using niello technique (niello is the black background, made of copper, lead, sulphur, borax).

Tholos tomb, called the “Treasury of Atreus,” ca. 1300 BCE

Detail, showing relieving triangle

Reconstructed façade of Treasury of Atreus

Section, tholos tomb

Half-column, partly restored, from Treasury of Atreus, now in Athens

Note enormous lintel block inside the “Treasury of Atreus”

Inner corbelled dome of “Treasury of Atreus”

Warrior Vase (krater, for mixing wine), from Mycenae, ca. 1200 BCE

Suit of Mycenaean armor, with boars’-tusk helmet, from tholos at Dendra, now in Nafplion Museum. Ca. 1300 BCE

Imports founds at Mycenae: jewelry and vessels from Egypt; below, Canaanite transport amphorae (from area of Syria)

Phaistos Disk, Linear A

Linear B tablets, National Museum, Athens