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PY Ta 641, sometimes known as the Tripod Tablet, [1] is a Mycenaean clay tablet inscribed in Linear B, currently displayed in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens. [1] Discovered in the so-called "Archives Complex" of the Palace of Nestor at Pylos in Messenia in June 1952 by the American archaeologist Carl Blegen , it has been described ...
Amphora with Palm Trees, Mycenaean, 15th century BC. From Mycenaean cemetery at Argive Deiras. NAMA 7107. Date: 12 March 2009, 05:31: Source: Amphora with Palm Trees, Mycenaean, 15th century BC. Author: Sharon Mollerus
The Thebes tablets, with inscriptions in Mycenaean Greek using Linear B, were discovered in Thebes, Greece. They belong to the Late Helladic IIIB context, contemporary with finds at Pylos . A first group of 21 fragments was found in the 1963–64 campaign; [ 1 ] A further 19 tablets were found in 1970 and 1972. [ 2 ]
The accomplishments of the Mycenaean civilisation in art, architecture and technology, which inspired European cultures, are also on display at both locations. These sites are strongly connected to the Homeric epics. The earliest examples of the Greek language are also visible at Mycenae and Tiryn, preserved on Linear B tablets.
This tablet dates to the LHIIB-IIIA1 period, i.e. around 1450-1400 B.C., which makes it the earliest Mycenaean tablet that has been found to date on the mainland of Greece. Furthermore, during the excavation period of 2012, an open-air sanctuary was discovered, also unique for that period, and for mainland Greece in general.
Greece has uncovered ancient ruins that may be linked to Sparta in the time of the ancient Mycenaean civilization.
Agios Vasileios (also spelled Ayios Vasileios or Ayios Vasilios; Greek: Άγιος Βασίλειος) is the site of a Mycenaean palace, located near the village of Xerokambi in Laconia, Greece.
Between 1969 and 1975, the expedition carried out the excavation of Nichoria, a Mycenaean and Early Iron Age site in southern Messenia, which proved a significant source of information about the end of the Bronze Age in Greece, as well as a proving ground and case study for the use of scientific, multi-disciplinary methods in archaeological ...