[SunkenCiv]

After 16 years of excavations on the Ithaca island, the Greek archaeologists have announced they have found the palace of Odysseus. File photo

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[Plutarch]

Did they find a dog tag that read “Argos”?

[SunkenCiv]

• Archeologists make historic discovery (Tomb of Odysseus)

  09/23/2005 7:37:53 PM PDT · by wagglebee · 123 replies · 5,382+ views

  The Madera Tribune ^ | 8/27/05 | Thomas Elias

  POROS, Island of Kefalonia, Greece - The tomb of Odysseus has been found, and the location of his legendary capital city of Ithaca discovered here on this large island across a one-mile channel from the bone-dry islet that modern maps call Ithaca. This could be the most important archeological discovery of the last 40 years, a find that may eventually equal the German archeologist Heinrich Schliemann's 19th Century dig at Troy. But the quirky people and politics involved in this achievement have delayed by several years the process of reporting the find to the world. Yet visitors to Kefalonia, an...

• Search Locates Homer's Ithaca

  09/29/2005 1:52:09 PM PDT · by blam · 32 replies · 1,005+ views

  BBC ^ | 9-29-2005

  Search 'locates' Homer's Ithaca An amateur British archaeologist says he has located Ithaca, the homeland of Homer's legendary hero Odysseus. Robert Bittlestone - backed by two experts - claims the rocky island depicted in The Odyssey is part of Greek tourist destination Cephalonia. He used satellite imagery to match the area's landscape with descriptions in the poem about the return of the man behind the wooden horse of Troy. Many experts had stated Homer was referring to the island of Ithaki. They had explained geographical inconsistencies in The Odyssey by suggesting that Homer lived much later than the events portrayed...

• Odyssey's End? The Search for Ancient Ithaca

  04/02/2006 9:48:35 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 10 replies · 269+ views

  Smithsonian Magazine ^ | Fergus M. Bordewich, Photographs by Jeffrey Aaronson

  Scholars have long agreed that ancient and modern Zachynthos are one and the same. Similarly, ancient Same was certainly the main body of modern Cephalonia, where a large town named Sami still exists. But modern Ithaca -- a few miles east of Cephalonia -- was hardly "the farthest out to sea," and its mountainous topography doesn't fit Homer's "lying low" description. (Bittlestone believes ancient Doulichion became modern Ithaca after refugees came there following an earthquake or other disaster and changed its name.) "The old explanations just felt unsatisfactory," says Bittlestone. "I kept wondering, was there possibly a radical new solution to this?" Back home...

• Drill hole begins Homeric quest

  10/11/2006 9:53:43 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 10 replies · 409+ views

  BBC News ^ | Wednesday, 11 October 2006 | Jonathan Amos

  Most people think the modern-day Ionian island of Ithaki is the location. But geologists are this week sinking a test borehole on nearby Kefalonia in an attempt to test whether its western peninsula of Paliki is the real site. The scientists hope to find evidence that the peninsula once stood proud, separated from Kefalonia by a narrow, navigable marine channel. It is only within the last 2,500-3,000 years - and long after Homer's time - that the channel has been filled in, the team contends. "We can't prove the story of the Odyssey is true, but we can test whether...

• Engineers To Help Find Homer's Itacha

  03/27/2007 3:15:17 PM PDT · by blam · 14 replies · 476+ views

  Yahoo News ^ | 3-26-2007 | Derek Gatopoulos

  Engineers to help find Homer's IthacaDerek Gatopoulous, Associated Press Writer Mon Mar 26, 11:02 PM ET ATHENS, Greece - A geological engineering company said Monday it has agreed to help in an archaeological project to find the island of Ithaca, homeland of Homer's legendary hero Odysseus. It has long been thought that the island of Ithaki in the Ionian Sea was the island Homer used as a setting for the epic poem "The Odyssey," in which the king Odysseus makes a perilous 10-year journey home from the Trojan War. But amateur British archaeologist Robert Bittlestone believes the Ithaca of Homer...

[Redcitizen]

Did they find the Ithaca shotgun mounted on Odyssesus’s fireplace?

[Vendome]

I’ve been keeping an “eye out” for that place too.

Did they find his mom?