CLASSICS 1M03 Lecture 1: Jan 8 Lecture 1
13 May 2016
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In the second half of the nineteenth century, two forgotten ancient civilizations were rediscovered: the minoan and mycenaean civilizations of the bronze age aegean. In the 1870s, a maverick german archaeologist, heinrich schliemann, unearthed the palace of mycenae. Later, further places were discovered in greece belonging to the same time period: tiryns, pylos, thebes. Also in the 1870s, schliemann discovered troy on the other side of the. In 1899, a british archaeologist, sir arthur evans, discovered the palace of. Other similar places were later discovered at other places on the island. Evans called the cretan civilizations that had built these palaces the minoan civilizations, after minos, a mythical cretan king. The people who lived in crete before greeks settled there, the people who, in the middle bronze age, had built the palace of knossos. There have been findings of clay tablets inscribed with two different scripts, which are called cretan hieroglyphs and linear a.
