Word: blegen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mainland? Using his knowledge of ancient languages (Greek and Latin), plus some of the methods he learned as a wartime cryptographer, Ventris began his work in earnest after the publication in 1951 of a book concerning another great discovery. The book was about the work of Professor Carl Blegen of the University of Cincinnati, who had come across 600 tablets while excavating the site of what is believed to have been the palace of King Nestor of Pylos, one of the great, Greek-speaking Achaean heroes of the Iliad. Since the Evans and Blegen tablets were in the same Linear...
Schlesinger, along with Theodore C. Blegen of the University of Minnesota, Henry Steele Commanger of Columbia, and U.S. Archivist Wayne Grover, was first called in several months ago to discuss safe-guarding the presidential papers for posterity...