Uncontacted contemporaries · 500 overlapping years

Mycenaean Greece Elamite Civilization

For 500 years — from 1,600 BCE to 1,100 BCE — both civilizations existed simultaneously. Neither this dataset nor the historical record shows any documented trade, war, or diplomatic contact between them.

2,700 BCE 539 BCE

Mycenaean Greece

1,600 BCE–1,100 BCE

Elamite Civilization

2,700 BCE–539 BCE

↑ Overlap begins, 1,600 BCE

Mycenaean Greece

Greek mainland and Aegean

Warrior-aristocracy palace states whose Linear B tablets are the earliest deciphered form of Greek.

Elamite Civilization

Southwestern Iran

A persistent Near Eastern power whose political and cultural identity endured for over two millennia alongside Mesopotamia's empires.

Traits both developed independently

With no documented contact, any shared trait below represents independent development rather than transmission from one to the other.

Monumental architecture Bronze metallurgy Standing army Long-distance trade Urban planning

Mycenaean Greece only

Seafaring

Elamite Civilization only

Iron metallurgy
Irrigation agriculture