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Tiryns
Tiryns' walls run 8 m thick and 13 m high. The Greeks said only giants could have built them.
It reached its height of importance between 1400 and 1200 BC, when it became one of the…
The Greeks credited the walls to the Cyclopes. What made people centuries later unable to picture human builders?
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