Art and Literature
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- Mycenaeans were famous for their pottery.
- The architecture of palaces and forts are great examples.
- They also decorate their weapons with jewels and painted gold.
- Frescoes are paintings during the Mycenaean age.
- Represents wars, battles, the hunt and just every day life in Mycenae.
- Funeral masks and amours were also forms of art in the Mycenaean world.

Mycenaean Pottery http://www.uark.edu/campus-resources/achilles/graphics/bronze%20myc%20vas1.gif
Mycenaean Pottery http://www.uark.edu/campus-resources/achilles/graphics/bronze%20myc%20vas1.gif

<http://ancienthistory.suite101.com/article.cfm/themightymycenaeans>
- Mycenaeans spoke an early form of Greek language.
- Their written language was called Linear B.
- Script appears to have been related to Linear A, used by the Minoans.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_B>
- Linear B consists of about 87 syllabic signs.
- In addition, a large number of “signifying” signs that stand for objects that are never used as word signs in writing a sentence.
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Researchers say that the script might have been used only by professional scribes.

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