Friday, May 27, 2016

Are we tomb of Aristotle? Everything points – Polish Radio

Found in the tomb treasures Photo: The Greek Ministry of Culture / Courtesy of University of Cincinnat

How informed the Greek Ministry of culture, a high-ranking warrior at the age of 30-35 years was buried in a wooden coffin in the famous Palace of Nestor at Pylos, named after one of the rulers from the time of the Trojan war.

Warrior buried in a golden jewelry chain decorated with pearls, sword with bronze handle encrusted with ivory and gold. The tomb also found silver vases and combs of ivory and gold rings and pieces of semi-precious stones.

This prehistoric fortune, decorated according to the Minoan fashion figures of gods, floral and animal motifs, such as lions, bulls and eagles, “is the largest in 65 years archaeological discovery” in mainland Greece – declared the Ministry.

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archaeologists have identified more than a thousand items. “The quality of the evidence of the impact coming from Crete’s Minoan civilization Mycenaean, which developed in the second millennium BC in the Peloponnese and the eastern part of the Mediterranean” – reads the ministry.

“Putting so many jewelry items in the tomb of the man contradicts the widespread belief that only women were buried with jewelery “- the Greek Ministry of culture reported, citing a statement archaeologists Jack L. Davis and Sharon R. Stocker of the university of Cincinnati.

the tomb, with a length of 2.4 m and a width of 1.5 m, were found during excavations, which began in may in the vicinity of Pylos, on the site of the Palace of Nestor built between 1300 and 1200 BC and whose ruins were discovered in 1939. Discoverer called the remains of a large Mycenaean palace of Nestor, who ruled Pylos in Homer’s poems.

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