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The destruction of the mycenaean palaces and the sea-peoples
I am reading about the destruction of the mycenaean palaces lately and there are a couple of theories to explain their destruction.
One of those theories supposes that the sea people, who raided the ...
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What is the citation-system for the Linear B tablets?
I continued my research about Mycenea and I´m reading Chadwicks "The Myceneaen World", which is based a lot on the Linear B tablets. When citing them, it looks like this:
We also found tablets in ...
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Are there ancient Greek historians who wrote about Mycenae?
I´m interested in Mycenae but have no background in archaeology, so my question is: Did the ancient writer like Thucydides, Herodot etc. write about the Minoic and/or Mycenaean time as well? If not, ...
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How much of the *Iliad* was confirmed scientifically?
Obviously, one of the central facts of Homer's Iliad was confirmed when archaeologists found Troy.
But were there any other details of Iliad (such as existance of Atreidae dynasty, Agamemnon actually ...
