Again it was Schliemann, who started digging here in 1876 and uncovered what he called King Agamemnon's palace and his famous gold mask, supposedly artifacts from the Mycenaean Age. ... Not much is known about women in bronze-age Mycenaean culture, but it is thought they were not as well regarded as in ancient Minoan society. ... By the Homeric Age Zeus became superior to Hera, undoubtedly showing women's declining status. ... After the Mycenae Era, Greece went through a "dark ages.... The next period is known as the Archaic Age, circa 800-500 b.c.e. ...

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