The entrance to the citadel is known as the Lion Gate. The gate was named after the relief sculpture of two lionesses standing on either side of a central pillar that is placed above the entrance. The ...

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From the 15th to the 12th Century BCE, Greece’s Mycenaean civilization ... architecture like the entrance to the Mycenae citadel called the Lion Gate, researchers believe that animals provided ...