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684 Obscure Museums; Peloponnesian and Mythical Greece

Travel with Rick Steves

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Mysenia, the City of Gold

Mysenia was excavated in the nineteenth century by a rather reckless german archaeologist called schleemen, who blew a lot of it up with dynamite to get at its treasures. They think this is where agamemnon, who led the fleet troy, lived. And er it's it's still it's got an incredible atmosphere. You look around in every direction and ther's bare mountains, and it's got a slightly sinister atmosphere, i have to say. This is where many of the greek tragedies took place. Just down the hill from it, as is modern day mysenia, which is these things ae relative. It's still very old,

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