Mycenaean is the name given to the culture of the Greece (except Crete) during the Late Bronze Age (1500–1100 BC). They are also referred to as Achaeans. The controversial writer Felice Vinci maintains that a Northern European tribe was referred to as Achaeans by Homer and who emigrated south and founded the Mycenaean civilisation. However, it was Martin Persson Nilsson (1874-1967), a Swedish historian, who was an early proponent of a Nordic origin for the Mycenaeans.

A recent outline^[226] of the Mycenaean culture has been produced by Rodney Castleden, who has also written about Atlantis.