Exploring the Mycenaean Citadel of Tiryns (History and Walking Tour)

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In this video we'll take a tour of mighty Tiryns, one of the great Mycenaean citadels of the late Bronze Age.
Contents:
00:00 History of Tiryns
04:31 Walking Tour of Tiryns
Related Videos:
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Sources and Suggested Reading:
Greece Monuments and Museums: Corinthia-Argolida - Elsi Spathari
The Mycenaeans - Louise Schofield
Mycenaeans - Rodney Castleden
Dawn of the Gods: Minoan and Mycenaean Origins of Greece - Jacquetta Hawkings
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@Breakfast_of_Champions Ай бұрын

The chainsaw massacre at Tyrins😄

@maureensinisi8896 Ай бұрын

Thank you for the tour!

@kaiokendo Ай бұрын

Enduro yyaay

@hanswi336 Ай бұрын

Just simply call it Tiryns 🙂

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Thanks everyone for watching, really appreciate it and more vids exploring sites in Greece and other places to come!

@whitewolf-hn2sk Ай бұрын

I've been to a lot of ancient sites in Greece and honestly there is always some large diesel engine machinery making noise in the background 😂

@azwris Ай бұрын

One of my favorite places to be! Sometimes I take my bike and go there only for the weekends. Two hours from home!

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Nice, it's such a beautiful area...it was also my first visit to Nafplio but it quickly became one of my favorite cities in Greece along with Tripoli and Pilos. Thanks for watching!

@azwris Ай бұрын

@HistorywithCy You are welcome Cy! Peloponnese is a very beautiful place with an extended variety of landscapes. I hope you always enjoy your travels and stay here. I would also like to suggest some books that you can read about Greek prehistory. Books that can help you a lot with your videos. Unfortunately, they're written only in our language. If you're interested let me know and I can share some titles with you via email or even here.

@Liakos953 9 күн бұрын

@@azwris Hi, could you share these books here as i’m also from Greece and I would be interested in reading them

@bryces9951 Ай бұрын

Ahh yes the chainsaw weilding people of tiryns, i have heard many stories about their wars against trees. Thanks Cy love your channel bro!

@interdictr3657 Ай бұрын

I can imagine how frustrated Cy would be having that chainsaw go on and on when hes trying to film LOL

@ancientsitesgirl Ай бұрын

I've only seen it from a distance, coming back from Mycenae, great video, I miss the Peloponnese!😍

@sraught Ай бұрын

My wife and I saw Mycenae back in January. I'm convinced the place was overrun by cats, and their descendants still rule there today.

@catman8965 Ай бұрын

I wish YOU could do a vid. about this place.

@catman8965 Ай бұрын

@@sraught CATS RULE...MEOW!!!💖💞💗🥂🍾🌻👀

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Thanks! Actually channels like yours inspired videos like this. Thanks so much for watching!

@Puzzledtraveller Ай бұрын

Like many, my interest in ancient civilizations in particular Greece was reinvigorated by AC Odyssey, watching this video it's amazing just how much of the natural landscape is captured in the game. To imagine standing there gazing at those walls knowing many ancient Greeks stood there like you equally in awe.

@kellyezebra Ай бұрын

Cy, can I tell you a secret? I really wasn’t all that bothered about ancient cultures. I forget what video got me watching you, but your enthusiasm for the subject has infected me. The sheer joy and respect you put on teaching us what you’ve learned about literally any people or land just makes my day, and makes learning history fun! Thank you for sharing!

@HistorywithCy 7 күн бұрын

Thanks so much for posting this! Comments like this make my day and are part of the reason why I do what I do...glad you're enjoying these videos. My goal is to make history accessible to everyone regardless of prior knowledge so glad some of these vids have sparked your interest. Thanks so much for watching, really appreciate it!

@nigelmorroll3343 Ай бұрын

Even what we see today is basically in Ruin , you can still see traces of its former glory. Must of have been an impressive sign back then.

@kaarlimakela3413 Ай бұрын

Another precious cedar bites the dust. I am so grateful to see these sites anyway! Thanks, Cy!

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it... more tours to come, stay tuned and thanks for watching!

@sraught Ай бұрын

Of all the photos I took during my visit to Greece, the Western Staircase at Tyrins is my favorite. There's just some surreal about being surrounded by such an ancient structure.

@HistorywithCy 7 күн бұрын

Yeah it is truly a remarkable site... walking up and down the staircase is fun but you have to be careful... I slipped but luckily caught myself before I landed badly and cut myself on those stones. Thanks for watching!

@clivesmith9377 Ай бұрын

Breathtaking! Those figurines were great, thank you!

@HistorywithCy 7 күн бұрын

My pleasure, thanks for watching!

@clivesmith9377 7 күн бұрын

@@HistorywithCy I looked for books on the citadel of Tiryns but I found nothing. Do you, maybe, know of any titles?

@bettylaselli2048 Ай бұрын

Wow! Great video as always. I love it! Thanks for sharing ❤

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

You're welcome, thanks for watching!

@paragorn206 Ай бұрын

You're the man! Thanks so much for sharing!!

@HistorywithCy 7 күн бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching!

@szbyzan Ай бұрын

Thank you for posting this. I used to have dreams of walking along a street wearing a red linen dress and this really does look like the place. I can smell it and hear laughter and talk and casual arguments..

@benvenuti_Moscow_walks Ай бұрын

Thank you for interesting tour 😊

@HistorywithCy 7 күн бұрын

My pleasure, thank YOU for watching!

@valiciprian2061 Ай бұрын

Beautiful.

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Thank you!

@WanaxTV Ай бұрын

Wow! Great to see Tiryns and I love this tour style! Great job Cy 🫡

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Thanks so much, you're gonna love it when you visit... it's a site fit for a Wanax!

@faryafaraji Ай бұрын

I've been spending my springs in the Argolides every year for a few years now but never heard of Tyrins. Shows the unparalleled notoriety of Mycenae, I suppose. In any case, great video, now I know where I'll go when I return to the Argolides!

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

It's definitely worth the visit and not that far from Mycenae itself!

@GLeibniz1716 Ай бұрын

The Mycenaean world is too often overlooked , but you’re doing a good job of illuminating it! Any chance of some vids on warfare, armaments and tactics from middle Bronze Age Mesopotamia Hammurabi , shamsi adad, etc. Your vids on that period were excellent; this would complement them!

@theitineranthistorian2024 Ай бұрын

quite amazing

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Yeah it's a really cool place...thanks for watching!

@BasicArchaeology-oz4yo 25 күн бұрын

Awesome video. I love it!!

@bkohatl Ай бұрын

You are living the life of my dreams. thanks for sharing.

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

No problem, glad you liked it and more tours to come!

@johnbeans2000 Ай бұрын

Thank you for taking us poors to see this site😂 I can't afford travel but so much to see! Thanks again for doing the next best thing and uploading a video tour!

@HistorywithCy 7 күн бұрын

My pleasure, glad you enjoyed this and hope you can see it live in the future!

@henkstersmacro-world Ай бұрын

👍👍👍 Too late to watch it now but it will be first thing to do tomorrow👀

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Thanks man, hope you enjoyed it. It's less of a history video, more travel I suppose.

@ProcyonAlpha Ай бұрын

Thanks 🎉

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

You're welcome!

@sandrargriffith3493 Ай бұрын

sounds that make me crazy: chainsaws, leaf blowers, barking dogs. Good video, enjoyed the tour. thank you.

@sandrargriffith3493 Ай бұрын

with the sound off lol

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Haha yeah that's what you'd experience if you go there...tried to keep it as real as possible lol. Thanks so for watching, appreciate it!

@jintermax1073 22 күн бұрын

Do you have video's on tower of Babel? @HistorywithCy

@brad4268ify Ай бұрын

Oh Wow ive always wanted to go there

@HistorywithCy 7 күн бұрын

Hope you get to go one day...thanks for watching!

@pittlebelge Ай бұрын

What struck me the most when visiting the Argolis is just how close those bronze age citadels were to each other. It gave me the feeling that those rulers would have had a lot of opportunity to meet, talk and feast together. I know the historicity of the Iliad is very much in question, but I can't help but imagine that in the war camp of the Argives, some people would have been much more familiar with eachother than the rest.

@t.j.payeur5331 Ай бұрын

The paintings look just like the ones on Crete .

@HistorywithCy 8 күн бұрын

Yes, they were likely influence by Minoan styles of art. Thanks for watching!

@TheRedneckPreppy Ай бұрын

Great video as always Cy, and continued thanks for your videos.

@HistorywithCy 8 күн бұрын

For sure, thanks for always tuning in!

@hanswi336 Ай бұрын

Let's not forget that Plataiai was 479 B.C., whereas 480 was Thermopylai... Else - what a wonderful walk - I did that in 1974 when there were no chainsaws.... The walls of the Western Staircase contained some of the famous frescos.

@brian7android985 Ай бұрын

Ahh, the dulcet tones of original Mycenian chainsaws...

@garymills562 Ай бұрын

I was at Tiryns in August of 86, not as green. Less traffic noise, and zero tourists. The walls made it at least as impressive as Mycenae.

@baggelis_aikaterinis Ай бұрын

Πολυ καλο βιντεο αν εξαιρεσεις τον τυπο με το αλυσοπριονο . Αναρωτιεμαι αν του ζητησες να σταματησει για λιγο ..........

@hydroac9387 Ай бұрын

I love maps! I wish you had lingered and explained a bit about the maps of the site I saw glimpses of around 9:50 and 17:05. That would make the rest of the tour more interesting! Question: I know many of these sites are reconstructed. How much of Tiryns is reconstructed? It looks like the walls got some TLC.

@hanswi336 Ай бұрын

TLC - Tender Loving Care _ Thin Layer Chromatography, anybody more suggestions??

@bobdowling6932 Ай бұрын

What time of year / time of day were you visiting? Is it always this empty?

@HistorywithCy 8 күн бұрын

I got there around 10:30 AM and there were maybe three other people there at the time. It probably gets busier later in the day. I think a lot of people overlook Tiryns and head straight to Mycenae.

@EGSBiographies-om1wb 14 күн бұрын

Mr Beat recommended this channel.

@HistorywithCy 8 күн бұрын

Welcome! Mr. Beat is great, love his channel for American history.

@stuartwald2395 Ай бұрын

If you look carefully you can see inscribed on one of the stones: "Heracles was here. Got any labors?"

@sterlingwarren Ай бұрын

History of the Khazars part 2 please. Long over due. Or at least sources to reference.

@oliviergermain350 Ай бұрын

I think that this site, like others, such as Mycenae, is of antediluvian origin, several times reused until ancient antiquity.

@sraught Ай бұрын

That's an interesting take. Why do you think that? I personally believe in the flood, so I'm honestly curious.

@fuferito Ай бұрын

"Mighty walled Tiryns," Homer calls it.

@MarcusAgrippa390 Ай бұрын

Sparse vegetation and a few trees, so it's kind of odd to see so many stones and hills and mountains and the sound of the gravel crunching as you walk... Only to hear an unseen chainsaw in the distance.

@gerardmichaelburnsjr. Ай бұрын

Why is there no sound?

@hanswi336 Ай бұрын

What do you mean?

@user-ly8dq9tb8c Ай бұрын

At least the Tiryns didn't have to put up with a noisy chainsaw, back in the day.

@blottoarregato8935 Ай бұрын

Seems it was Leatherface, not the Sea Peoples who wiped out Mycenaean civilization

@vonderloo3184 Ай бұрын

Looks repaired to me with orange pieces. 🙃

@permafrost7781 Ай бұрын

Were these built pre or post flood?

@hanswi336 Ай бұрын

Which flood? If the Mediterranean Sea should have flooded the Black Sea at the Bosporus, that might have been around 6000ish B.C. and no impact on Greece. The earliest "Mycenean" walls of Tiryns were dated at about 2500 B.C. and the upper citadel was destoyed at about 1190-1180 B.C.

@permafrost7781 Ай бұрын

@@hanswi336 The proven biblical flood. Noah? I believe it is dated at around 2400 BC.

@hanswi336 Ай бұрын

@@permafrost7781 Where did that occur and why should that have happened? How was that "proven"?

@permafrost7781 Ай бұрын

@@hanswi336 I dunno, can search the bible maybe? Hundreds of videos of proof the ark was found near mount ararat in Turkey, but if you think God is a fable fantasy and believe you came out from the sea nevermind than.

@hanswi336 Ай бұрын

@@permafrost7781 Trump voter ??

@kaarlimakela3413 25 күн бұрын

Ever hear of Alula in Saudi Arabia!?!? WOW WOW WOW!

@HamCubes Ай бұрын

No escaping from the goddamned BLOWERS!

@hanswi336 Ай бұрын

The blower turned out to be a saw 🙂

@HamCubes Ай бұрын

@@hanswi336 Thank you!

@ezzovonachalm9815 Ай бұрын

Please do not film chainsaws ,the peripheral megalitic stones, Tourists , nearby mountains (or tell us their names for orientation) but film what remains of the citadel and habitations ! And stop the travelings to let us see memorable or testimonial details. Thank You for this master work of mute subsisting important historical mycenean remains

@juniorthomas6404 Ай бұрын

Still waiting for the continuation of the Peloponnesian war. I already watched Kings and generals video

@pontiacpaul1 Ай бұрын

Was a lower city

@mns8732 Ай бұрын

Can you touch the stone?

@HistorywithCy 29 күн бұрын

Yes, you can pretty explore the whole site without restrictions. Thanks for watching!

@thatonedude6247 Ай бұрын

OMAIGA

@S3Kglitches Ай бұрын

Occupied since 5000 BC. What civilization/nation lived there? The Indo-Europeans expanded like 3000 BC didnt they

@ChuJungyin Ай бұрын

11:22 I bet those nearby farmers aren't paying their taxes to the Wanax of Tiryns.

@m00nmanners Ай бұрын

Thanks Cy, great video but I think it's safe to say the vast majority of your audience will never make it to Greece!

@hanswi336 Ай бұрын

And surely nobody will make it to the moon after watching "Apollo 13".....

@koksalceylan9032 Ай бұрын

All hitite inventions

@Andy_Babb Ай бұрын

I’d like to see a documentary about Medusa… legend has it that she was objectifying people

@ogrejd Ай бұрын

Can't imagine just how claustrophobic it must've been back when it was in its prime.

@perretti Ай бұрын

Jesus Christ we don’t need to hear the locals construction crews for 20 minutes WTF?

@rafaelfcf Ай бұрын

It looks way less safer than Mycenea.

@nole8923 Ай бұрын

Historians still haven’t done a good job explaining what caused the Bronze Age collapse and the destruction of bronze era cities and civilizations. And what’s with the weed eater sounds at 5:15?

@steventhompson399 Ай бұрын

Bronze age collapse is still murky and there's no straightforward simple explanation that I've heard, but I've most often heard climate change (getting dryer, famine) and the sea people's attacking, but there is dispute about it and we may never really know

@BarrySuridge Ай бұрын

Chainsaw

Ай бұрын

A domino effect caused by climate change, which may have started north of Greece. After all, we know most Sea people were indoeuropeans