![A Mycenaean funeral mask identified as the "Mask of Agamemnon" by Heinrich Schliemann](http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h71/DogByte6RER/593px-MaskAgamemnon.png)
A Mycenaean funeral mask identified as the "Mask of Agamemnon" by Heinrich Schliemann
![Fresco: the "Lady of Mycenae" accepts a gift of a necklace.](http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h71/DogByte6RER/581PX-1.jpg)
Fresco: the "Lady of Mycenae" accepts a gift of a necklace.
yes, Linear b is mainly for bureaucratic records, but one could argue that Bureaucracy was invented a millennium earlier, in 3200 BC, in early Mesopotamia.
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