Almost all well-known history of ancient Greece. From an earlier period rather well studied Mycenaean and Cretan-the Minoan civilization. But what was in Greece before, historians virtually unknown. Meanwhile, even a cursory glance at the archaeological monuments can be found here traces of highly developed technical civilization, representatives of which our ancestors were called gods. The remains of buildings of this civilization gods thousands of years later, the ancient Mycenaean Greeks used for their own purposes, preserving the memory of times of ancient gods, not only in myths and legends.