#mycean

Talk about specs and placing objects. I should have known it doesn't fit. 😅

I love Greece, my culture and upbringing is shaped by my ancestors. My studies of ancient history and Philology so foreseeable but how can you not with such beauty? 💙

According to Archeology magazine, published by the Archaeological Institute of America, the discovery of a man’s grave filled with more than 2,000 artefacts outside the Palace of Nestor in Pylos, on the southwestern coast of Greece, has changed the way archaeologists view two great ancient Greek cultures. In the past, scholars debated long on the nature of the relationship between Mycenaean and Minoan civilisation, which centred on whether Mycenaean culture -and what is thought of as ancient Greek culture, dating to half a millennium later- was imported from Crete or was a homegrown phenomenon. But the exceptional discovery in Pylos of an intact tomb of the Mycenean warrior, later dubbed the “Griffin Warrior”, filled with over 2,000 artefacts suggests that the concept of competing cultures might obscure a deep interconnectedness.

“Archaeologists have a way of cutting the world up into well-bounded cultural entities, but it seems that in the Late Bronze Age new identities were being formed,” archaeologist Dimitri Nakassis of the University of Colorado Boulder stated, adding that “there used to be clear lines between the Minoans and the Mycenaeans, but a lot of work now points out that these are our categories, not theirs.”