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Greek Dark Age
The Greek Dark Age (c. 1200 to c. 800 BCE, overlapping with the Iron Age, c. 1200-550 BCE) is the modern-day term for the period in Greek history following the Bronze Age Collapse when the Mycenaean Civilization fell and the Linear B writing...
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Mycenaean Civilization
The Mycenaean civilization flourished in the Late Bronze Age (c. 1700-1100 BCE), peaking from the 15th to the 13th century BCE. The Mycenaeans extended their influence throughout the Peloponnese in Greece and across the Aegean from Crete...
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Table 1 - Chronology of the Greek Dark Age
Simplified chronology of the Greek Dark Age
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Table 2 - Overview of the Greek Dark Age pottery styles
Overview of the different pottery styles found in Greece between 1050 BC to 700 BC.
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The Dark Ages...How Dark Were They, Really?: Crash Course
John Green teaches you about the so-called Dark Ages, which it turns out weren't as uniformly dark as you may have been led to believe. While Europe was indeed having some issues, many other parts of the world were thriving and relatively...
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Lefkandi Centaur
Terracotta sculpture found on the site of Lefkandi (Euboea), dated to c. 950 BCE (Archaeological Museum of Eretria).
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Excavations at Lefkandi
Heroon (Hero's Grave) of Lefkandi, western rooms, from the north, photographed in 1991.
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Figure 1 - Decline in the number of recorded sites and cemeteries in Greece
Recorded sites and cemeteries in Greece. (a) LH IIIB period , shows a total of 628 sites and cemeteries. (b) LH IIIC period, shows a total of 147, a reduction of slightly over 75% in the number of recorded sites and cemeteries. (Source...
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Matter of Aratta
The Matter of Aratta is the modern-day title for a collection of four poems – Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta, Enmerkar and En-suhgir-ana, Lugalbanda in the Mountain Cave, and Lugalbanda and the Anzud Bird – concerning the rivalry between...
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Bahram Gur in the Dark Palace in the Khamsa of Nizami
"Bahram Gur in the Dark Palace on Saturday", illustration from Folio 207 from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja, Herat, Afghanistan, 1524-25 CE.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
