Word: mycenaean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Plows. Graves goes one better than mere verbal theorizing-he has pictorially theorized the original tablets in collaboration with Artist James Metcalf, who engraves them in a modern version of sub-Mycenaean style. He arranges his pictures first in the order in which the Bible has them-four sequences of nine, each sequence running from right to left. Then he arranges them in what he postulates as the original order-four sequences of nine, running alternately from right to left, then left to right, the order known from the Greek as boustrophedon, "as the ox plows." For instance, he says...
Queen's Boudoir. For five seasons Dr. Blegen's group has been working at a site near Pylos in southern Greece, where the ruins of a Mycenaean palace cover the top of a hill. Most famous inhabitant of Pylos was King Nestor of the Iliad, and it is probable that the palace once belonged to him and his Queen. Eurydice. The building, which had two floors, was burned to the ground after Nestor's death, but the blacked ruins can still tell much about the people who lived there...
...story is based on real events, it must have happened about 1500 B.C., during the Mycenaean period, the dimly-known dawn of Greek history. So legendary are the Seven that to dig for the graves at Eleusis might seem as unrealistic as to dig in Yorkshire for the grave of Robin Hood. But last week Archaeologist George E. Mylonas of Washington University. St. Louis, announced that he had actually found the graves...
...them hit an ancient tomb a yard below the surface and only 50 ft. from the rumbling rock crusher. More digging uncovered five more tombs-just the right number to fit both the legend and the description of Pausanias. The bones they contained were poorly preserved, but late Mycenaean vases proved that the tombs were of the right period...
Triumph & Death. Scarcely pausing to taste his success, Schliemann rushed on to Mycenae, Agamemnon's city, and there unearthed the tombs of the Mycenaean kings with their treasures of gold and priceless antiquities, and on again to Orchomenus in the Peloponnesus, where he uncovered the legendary treasury of King Minyas, and to Tiryns, the birthplace of Hercules, where he revealed the largest citadel of the Grecian world. At last, at the age of 68, Schliemann committed the only anticlimax of his career-he died in Naples of a sudden infection...