A handout photo released by the Greek Ministry of Culture on Tuesday shows the excavations site with remains of a palace of the Mycenaean period (17-16 century BC.), bearing important inscriptions in archaic Greek, discovered near Sparta in the Peloponnese region of Greece.
I always thought linear B was associated with Crete.
The main house appears to be in pretty good shape! ;^)
“Laconia” is the source of our word “laconic”; supposedly they were besieged, and when the attacking force sent a message detailing all the things they would do if they took the city, the Laconian response was “If”...
ISIS will get right on that.
For a minute there, I thought they meant Laconia, New Hampshire!
I always connected laconia wit Bike Week.
But I am sure there are quite a few fossils up there, too! :-)
That’s when a Shovel head comes in handy.
Wonder where and how they got the ivory for the ivory idols. Who were they trading with?
A palace complex found on the site and dated to the Mycenaean era is believed to have been razed by fire in the late 15th or early 14th century BC, which destroyed several buildings but preserved Linear B tablets and seals constructed of unbaked clay.
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The fire dates tend to associate it with the thera volcanic eruption and the destruction of the Minoan civilization.
