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Walk the citadel of the Bronze Age kings who sacked Troy. The Lion Gate still stands. The Treasury of Atreus still vaults overhead. Every narration traces back to a specific passage in Pausanias's Description of Greece, Book 2 — the 2nd-century AD eyewitness account that has been the foundation of Mycenae scholarship for 1,800 years.
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Every claim in this tour traces back to a named source — excavation records, the heritage authority for the site, and the primary texts themselves. Nothing is copied from other guidebooks, and anything we can't source doesn't make the recording.
Each stop is built from OpenStreetMap · 67 features in this old town (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 35 cross-referenced entries (peer-reviewed structured records), the heritage authority below, and the primary historical texts where they exist.
Cross-referenced against British School at Athens · continuous Argolid excavation programme.
Every sentence is checked against those sources before it is recorded. If a claim can't be traced, it doesn't make the audio.
The major stops trace back to specific passages in Pausanias's Description of Greece, Book 2, cited stop by stop.
Every tour is reviewed by a person before it goes on sale. Stop selection, the route and anything ambiguous come back to the editor for a decision, and those questions routinely send a stop back for another accuracy pass. Nothing publishes on a machine’s say-so.
Spot anything inaccurate? Email [email protected] — fixed in the next pass.
The acropolis enclosed by cyclopean walls — the Lion Gate, Grave Circle A, the palace complex with megaron and throne, the cult centre, the secret cistern stairway.
The Bronze Age beehive tombs scattered around the citadel — the Treasury of Atreus you walk inside, the Tomb of Clytemnestra, the Tomb of Aegisthus, the Tomb of the Lions. The largest preserved corbelled domes from the ancient world.
The second great Mycenaean citadel, twelve kilometres south. The casemate galleries, the gates, the megaron foundations, and the cyclopean walls that Pausanias called the work of giants.
A twenty-ton limestone lintel topped by two lionesses flanking a column. The most famous gateway from the prehistoric world, still standing where Pausanias saw it in the 2nd century AD.
You walk through the dromos and step into a 14-metre-tall beehive vault. Each course of stone projects slightly inward, gradually closing the dome above you. The largest enclosed space ever built before the Pantheon.
The royal burial ground where Heinrich Schliemann uncovered the gold death masks in 1876 and famously claimed to have looked upon the face of Agamemnon. The earliest evidence of Mycenaean wealth — gold cups, swords, jewellery, and the masks themselves.
Walls fitted from blocks so massive Pausanias believed only the Cyclopes could have lifted them. Many courses still stand to their original height. The visual signature of Mycenaean defensive architecture.
The second-largest preserved beehive tomb at Mycenae, attributed by modern convention to Agamemnon's queen. You enter the chamber where the corbel courses rise to a single capstone — no inscription, no certainty, only the chamber itself.
Pausanias devoted his attention to Tiryns and its galleries — barrel-vaulted casemates inside the cyclopean walls, used for storage and defence. The propylon, the megaron foundations, and the same monumental wall construction as Mycenae.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 31 narration points.
Follow the suggested route or explore freely. GPS tracks your position. Reach a site and the narration plays automatically.
Each narration connects what you can see today to what Pausanias saw in the 2nd century AD, layered with the modern archaeology that has rewritten what we thought we knew about the Bronze Age Aegean.
Narrations play when you reach each site. No buttons, no track numbers. Walk naturally — the stories find you.
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Every narration is drafted, cross-checked against primary sources, then passed through a second editorial pass that strips unsupported claims. Dates, names, and citations verified.
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From Schliemann's Grave Circle to the corbelled vault of the Treasury of Atreus to Tiryns's casemate galleries. Major monuments get deep dives. Tholos tombs and palace sub-buildings get concise narrations.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
Three ways, all built in:
The map-tap option means you can stand anywhere — even at home before you travel — and play any narration. GPS just makes it hands-free while you’re actually walking the site.
No. Use the “Download for offline” button before you go, and the entire tour — audio, maps, narration text — works without any data connection. Tap-to-play and the map both work fully offline. GPS itself doesn’t need data; only the download does.
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Two backstops. First, the map shows every site — just tap the marker for the place in front of you. Second, you can manually queue any narration even when GPS is off. The platform never assumes GPS works; it’s the convenience layer, not the gate.
The audio runs ~3 hours audio total, but you walk at your own pace. 31 narration points across the site. Most visitors take 2–4 hours; some spread it over multiple visits. Once you buy it, it’s yours — there’s no expiry and no subscription. Come back next year if you like; the link in your receipt always works.
One purchase covers one device session. Most couples share earbuds and use a single phone — the audio is paced for that. If you want everyone listening on their own device, each person needs their own purchase. We do not gate sharing aggressively; we trust visitors to do the right thing.
Full refund if you never trigger a single narration on-site. Partial refund based on how far you got. See the refund policy for specifics.
Each narration traces back to a specific passage in Pausanias's Description of Greece, Book 2 — chapters 16-17 on Mycenae and chapter 25 on Tiryns. Pausanias's 2nd-century AD eyewitness account has been the foundation of Argolid scholarship for 1,800 years. Where Pausanias is silent (the Treasury of Atreus, Grave Circle A, the cult centre and several citadel sub-buildings excavated after his visit), the narration draws on modern consensus from the British School at Athens / Mycenae excavation publications and the work of Mylonas, Iakovidis, and the Greek Archaeological Service. Each stop in the audio guide carries its Pausanias chapter:section citation where one exists.