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Here we reproduce parts from three different articles on the subject, so that our readers obtain the best possible information. Continue reading “Mycenean palace unearthed near Sparta, Linear B Tablets Found”
The third out of five seasons has been completed of systematic excavations conducted by the Ephorate of Antiquities of Corinth in the Mycenaean cemetery at Aidonia, Nemea. Continue reading “An intact grave was found at the Aidonia cemetery”
Using advanced digital imaging technologies, classics professor and archaeologist Dimitri Nakassis is changing long-held perceptions of how prehistoric Greek communities functioned. Continue reading “Bronze Age bookkeeping tablets reveal complex society”
Here we present the ‘Abstract‘ of the corresponding book (a collection of papers on the matter), edited by Hariclia Brecoulaki, Jack L. Davis & Sharon R. Stocker. Continue reading “Mycenaean Wall Painting in Context. New Discoveries, Old Finds Reconsidered”
In Aulis, it was perhaps a fair wind that had to be secured by Iphigenia’s sacrifice, but in ancient Kydonia, on the Kasteli hill of Chania in Crete, it was an earthquake and the chthonic deities that, according to the customs and “logic” of the time, needed to be placated by the ancient Kydonians resorting to human sacrifice(s)… Continue reading “Ritual human sacrifice in the Mycenaean palace of Kydonia?”
Here we present the first page of the corresponding publication by V. Gordon Childe, which claims a Mycenean presence in Cornwall, Britain. Continue reading “Bronze Dagger of Mycenaean type from Pelynt, Cornwall”
Novo Scriptorium 