Tiryns

Tiryns is a Mycenaean citadel and archaeological site in the Argolid region of Greece, about 20 kilometers south of Mycenae. Continuously occupied for roughly seven thousand years, it reached its height between 1400 and 1200 BC, when Homer already praised its mighty walls. The site is famed for its Cyclopean fortifications, built from massive irregular limestone blocks, and for a hilltop palace centered on a megaron with a great reception hall; a gallery of stone corbelled tunnels is cut directly into the ramparts. Around 1300 BC the citadel and its lower town held an estimated 10,000 people; the palace was destroyed by fire around 1200 BC, though the settlement itself persisted and grew before its final abandonment by the 2nd century AD. UNESCO inscribed Tiryns as a World Heritage Site in 1999 alongside Mycenae.