Tiryns

Tiryns is a Mycenaean archaeological site in Argolis in the Peloponnese, Greece, 20 kilometers south of Mycenae, and the place from which the mythical hero Heracles was said to have performed his Twelve Labours. Occupied for seven thousand years before the Bronze Age, it reached its height between 1400 and 1200 BC as one of the most important centers of the Mycenaean world, known for its palace, its Cyclopean tunnels and its walls, which gave the city its Homeric epithet mighty walled Tiryns. Around 1300 BC the citadel and lower town held a population of about 10,000 people across 20 to 25 hectares, and despite the destruction of the palace around 1200 BC the population continued to grow, reaching about 15,000 by 1150 BC before the site went into decline and was completely deserted by the time Pausanias visited in the 2nd century AD. Along with the nearby ruins of Mycenae, Tiryns was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999.