Cyclopean Walls and the Lion Gate of Mycenae
How did Late Bronze Age builders working without iron tools, pulleys, or draft-animal cranes quarry, move, and raise limestone blocks weighing many tonnes each — including an roughly 18-tonne lintel over the Lion Gate — into fortification walls so massive that Iron Age Greeks themselves could only credit the mythical one-eyed Cyclopes?
14th-13th century BCE (Late Bronze Age / Mycenaean palatial period) · Mycenae, Argolis, Peloponnese, GreeceAdded July 2026