Collection of Mycenaean weaponry.
~Late Bronze Age (1600-1100 BC)

The #Mycenaean -inspired #Greek #Easter #bakeoff in Dr Chrysanthi Gallou's class. This week's winner is Xavier with his delicious Mycenaean fresco, 8-figure shield & octopus stirrup jar cookies🐙🏺🧁👨‍🍳
Recipe by AkisPetretzikis
Prizes: Chrysanthi's book & Eric H. Cline's new graphic novel

1/The early Mycenaean elites emerging from the complex late Middle Helladic communities seem to have had an inclination towards the display of their wealth and power, with the main way of expression being the construction of megalithic burial structures, such as the tholos tombs.

Mycenaean Daggers (16th Century NC), inlaid with gold, niello and silver, from Greece.

National Archaeological Museum, Athens

#drthehistories

Admixture model for modern day northern italians.
-Cisalpine Iron Age: Cenomani Celts and alpine Raethians
-Imperial Med: Mycenaean and Roman settlers
-Germanic/Slavic: Iron Age Russia and Scandinavia

Wrong again Mycenaean child, enjoy civilisational calamity.

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Arkadiko Bridge (1300-1190 BC), a Mycenaean Chariot Bridge; is the one of the oldest in Europe, which is still in use, located in Greece :

The oldest bridge in Europe that is still in use today can be found in Greece; named the Arkadiko Bridge, it dates back to Mycenaean times.…

1) Deciphering Mycenaean (Linear B): What method was used ?

For a long time, it was believed that the history of the Greek world began with Homer, or at least that Greek written documentation began with Homer. This refers to the two epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, typically…

Happy International Dance Day!

Terracotta group of 3 dancers in a ring, 1300 bc, The British Museum

#Mycenaean #InternationalDanceDay

4) Deciphering Mycenaean (Linear B): What method was used ?

There are different images (logograms) for vases. Some vases have handles 𐃨 ('ears'), while others do not 𐃡. This is important because when we have the word 'vase,' there is sometimes a graphic sequence accompanying…

Thread: A really nice pic by Michele Mitrovich of the so called 'Grave Circle A', a circular enclosure within which Mycenaean elite was buried. Mycenae, Greece. Did this circle originally have a different, ceremonial, religious function and only later became a burial holy ground?

This ivory “pyxis” lid depicting a woman in the “master/mistress of animals” motif (or in the Homeric term, potnia theron) was found in Ugarit (modern Ras Sharma, Syria) from around the fourteenth century BC and displays Mycenaean influence.

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some ppl note that mycenaean culture and indo-iranian culture seem to have weird similarities. why? (david anthony and others have mentioned this) also, finnic languages have borrowings specifically from proto-indo-iranian (not just later iranian). why?

human geography 2000 BC

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3) Deciphering Mycenaean (Linear B): What method was used ?

What also played a significant role is the context, especially the context to the right of the inscriptions. These are accounting archives, meaning there are objects, livestock, or individuals paying taxes, for example,…

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