GREAT DISCOVERIES · c. 1600–1100 BCE
Lion Gate, Mycenae, Greece
Heinrich Schliemann's 'Mask of Agamemnon' predates the king of the Trojan War stories. The target is the Lion Gate.
The story, as a puzzle
A golden mask.
In 1876, an excavator found a gold death mask here and believed he had seen the face of a legendary Greek king. The mask turned out to be centuries older than the legend. Pin the citadel.
Where it is
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