HOMERIC AGE
EXCAVATION OF RELICS AXCIEXT KING’S PALACE LONDON, May 11.—Discovered on a hill-top near Pylos, says an Athens message, are the remains of a 3000-year-old palace believed to have been that of the sage King Nestor, whom Homer immortalised. The site overlooks the Bay of Navarino. The finder, Professor Karl Biogen, ail American, says the ruin is undoubtedly that of a Mysenian* palace of the thirteenth century, B.C. Probably two years must pass before the excavation is complete, and it can. be determined whether the palace was really Nestor’s, it covers' an area of 170yds. by 80yds., and may contain great treasures. Professor Blegen lias also discovered near by, a beehive tomb of the type in which the ancients buried kings, and (CO clay tablets covered with writing, the first of their type to lie found on the Creek mainland. Samoi are apparently records of Nestor’s cattle herds. They are expected to throw light oin the Homeric Age.
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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 212, 26 July 1939, Page 1
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