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CNN Recommends Mycenae to its Readers

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CNN recommends Mycenae, Greece, as one of the 15 most important, though not very popular archaeological sites in the world. The article published on the official website of CNN bore the headline Digging deep: 15 ancient ruins you might not know, and the sub-head Ancient sites you should see.

Among these sites were Kourion and Paphos in Cyprus, Thebes in Egypt, Jerash in Jordan, Lumbini in Nepal (where the Buddha was born) and the Temple and Tomb of Confucius, in Qufu of China.

“You don’t need us to call your attention to the Colosseum in Rome or the pyramids in Egypt. So, as archaeologists, we’re digging deep for a list of lesser-known ancient ruins,” the author of the article Leslie Gilbert Elman wrote explaining that “We’re abiding by the Merriam-Webster dictionary definition of “ancient” as history up to the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 AD. Our definition of “ruins” includes some sites that are mere shadows of their glory days and others that have been protected or preserved since, virtually, the beginning of civilization.”

In its article published on September 13, 2013, CNN wrote: “In Mycenae, the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann unearthed the golden mask of Agamemnon from a tomb in 1876. Or, at least, he claims he did. Schliemann was an enthusiastic digger but an unreliable chronicler of his finds. While the mask may or may not have come from Mycenae, it almost certainly had nothing to do with Agamemnon, the mythological 14th-century BC king.

The Mycenaean empire, however, was real and extremely influential in the ancient world. The site is in ruins, but the Lion Gate of the former palace from around 1300 BC still stands and the remains of the beehive-shaped tholos tombs reserved for royalty are still being studied and excavated.”

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