Tag: Mycenaean

For the Greeks of the Archaic and Classical periods, Mycenae and the civilization associated with it, known as the Bronze Age, represented a kind of reference past. It was linked to the exploits of heroes such as Achilles, Agamemnon, or Odysseus. These warriors seemed to have lived in close proximit...

Subsequently, further excavations took place, notably by Arthur Evans at Knossos in Crete. His excavations, leading to sensational discoveries, revealed documents on clay tablets inscribed in an unknown writing system. Nearly four thousand clay tablets were thus uncovered. The possibility that the i...