The Mycenaeans had evidently occupied Aegina, a triangular island in the Saronic Gulf of the Aegean Sea, twenty-three kilometers (fourteen miles) south of present Athens, sometime before about 1500.

According to Herodotus, Aegina was a colony of Epidaurus, to which state it was originally subject.

Settled since Late Neolithic times, its placement between Attica and the Peloponnesus makes it a center of trade even earlier, and its earliest inhabitants came from Asia Minor.

Minoan ceramics will be found in contexts of around 2000 BCE.

A number of gold ornaments discovered in the island belong to the latest period of Mycenaean art.