Your doctor can break up or remove stones with a few different procedures. Shock wave lithotripsy (SWL): This works best for small or medium stones. Your doctor uses high-energy sound waves aimed from the outside of your body to break up the kidney stone into little pieces. These pieces will pass in your urine.
The Mycenaeans seem to have been a warlike people who measured their wealth by the number of weapons they owned. The Mycenaeans learned many Minoan customs and adapted Minoan ways to fit their own culture. The process by which a culture takes ideas from other cultures is known as cultural borrowing. The Mycenaeans borrowed Minoan religious beliefs. They changed Minoan art styles and pottery designs to make them more warlike. They also changed Minoan writing to match the Mycenaean language.
The Mycenaean Bronze Age. The ancient Greeks were the earliest representatives of Western Civilization. Mycenae, and the kings of this city seem to have exercised some influence over the other Greek towns, the early Greeks are called Mycenaeans. The Myceanaeans owed much of their cultural advancement to the Minoans.