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Aegeus Society For Aegean Prehistory

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The Palace of Nestor at Pylos in Western Messenia. Vol. IV. The Inscribed Documents

Columbus 2025

The Palace of Nestor at Pylos in Western Messenia. Vol. IV. The Inscribed Documents In 1939, on the first day of excavation on a hill in western Messenia, Carl W. Blegen uncovered a Mycenaean palace that he called The Palace of Nestor. Its archives contained clay tablets inscribed in the so-called Linear B script, a syllabary employed to record the Greek language.