event · evt_mycenae_palace_destruction
Final Destruction of the Palace at Mycenae
The palace at Mycenae was destroyed, but the date is broader and less synchronized than a single 1200 BCE horizon suggests.
What is the evidence?
observed evidence
- Palatial destruction context
- Post-palatial occupation continued
proposed causes
- fire
- warfare
- internal conflict
- accident
consequences
Destruction is secure; exact date and cause remain disputed.
Inspect the sources →Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: reviewed for v0.1. This is separate from specialist review.
Recorded dataset maintenance date: 2026-08-11.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
1230 BCE–1190 BCE
Precision: ceramic range
moderatestratigraphy and ceramic chronology
- informs · establishes
Synchronizing the Destructions of the Mycenaean Palaces (2022)
Locator: Mycenae chapters and introduction - informs · reviews
Getting Closer to the Late Bronze Age Collapse in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean, c. 1200 BC — Guy D. Middleton (2024)
Locator: p. 262 - informs · reviews
Destruction and Its Impact on Ancient Societies at the End of the Bronze Age — Jesse Michael Millek (2023)
Locator: mainland Greece chapter
Event context
People and places
Locations: Mycenae
Affected entities: Mycenae, Mycenaean Palatial System
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Destruction Horizon
A stratigraphic horizon showing burning, collapse, damage, or other destruction-related evidence; it does not by itself identify an attacker or cause.
Why does this record have this property?
Final Destruction of the Palace at Mycenae is represented as a destruction-related archaeological event; cause and synchronism are modeled separately.
Cause Unknown
The observed event is established more securely than its cause.
Why does this record have this property?
The event is better established than a single definitive cause or attacker identity.
Evidence and sources
- informs · reviews
Getting Closer to the Late Bronze Age Collapse in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean, c. 1200 BC — Guy D. Middleton (2024)Source relationship recorded for Final Destruction of the Palace at Mycenae.
Locator: p. 262 - informs · reviews
Destruction and Its Impact on Ancient Societies at the End of the Bronze Age — Jesse Michael Millek (2023)Source relationship recorded for Final Destruction of the Palace at Mycenae.
Locator: mainland Greece chapter - informs · establishes
Synchronizing the Destructions of the Mycenaean Palaces (2022)Source relationship recorded for Final Destruction of the Palace at Mycenae.
Locator: Mycenae chapters and introduction
Referenced records
- Mycenaean Palatial System · entity
- Mycenae · entity