UC team discovers rare warrior tomb filled with bronze age wealth and weapons
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Re: UC team discovers rare warrior tomb filled with bronze age wealth and weapons
#2Basically they found a tomb of a warrior buried on the mainland, and the manner of his burial (specifically the positioning of weapons/jewelry etc.) indicates that the mainland-based Mycenaeans were strongly aware of Minoan culture, and it's likely that the two cultures intermingled and may have together "shaped the culture of classical Greece".
This contradicts previous assumptions that the Mycenaeans were essentially barbarians compared to the Minoans, and had no real impact on anything important.
Re: UC team discovers rare warrior tomb filled with bronze age wealth and weapons
#3I had to find a readable writeup: http://magazine.uc.edu/editors_picks/recent_features/warrior...
Re: UC team discovers rare warrior tomb filled with bronze age wealth and weapons
#4This article is total crap. It's super long and at half it's length it hasn't yet told me how this flipping tomb has upended what we thought we knew about western civilisation.
Jo Marchant is an awful writer and should probably be doing something else for a living.
Re: UC team discovers rare warrior tomb filled with bronze age wealth and weapons
#5This article is total crap. It's super long and at half it's length it hasn't yet told me how this flipping tomb has upended what we thought we knew about western civilisation. Jo Marchant is an awful writer and should probably be doing something else for a living.
Jo Marchant is an awful writer and should probably be doing something else for a living.
There are many of people who enjoy long form articles and who read this sort of thing very happily. The author is writing for them, and not you.
Re: UC team discovers rare warrior tomb filled with bronze age wealth and weapons
#6Already discussed before:
Re: UC team discovers rare warrior tomb filled with bronze age wealth and weapons
#7Basically they found a tomb of a warrior buried on the mainland, and the manner of his burial (specifically the positioning of weapons/jewelry etc.) indicates that the mainland-based Mycenaeans were strongly aware of Minoan culture, and it's likely that the two cultures intermingled and may have together "shaped the culture of classical Greece". This contradicts previous assumptions that the Mycenaeans were essential…
I would refute that this is merely a warriors grave. It was on the Palace of Nestor, and several gold pieces were buried with him. Most likely a king or his lead warrior.
And it was already found 2015. Wikipedia has it already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_Nestor with a link to an older longer article: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/golden-warrior-greek-t...