HISTORY 1M03 Lecture 16: Aegean Bronze Age
7 Jan 2018
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In the second half of the 19th century, 2 forgotten ancient civilizations were rediscovered: the. Minoan and mycenaean civilizations of the bronze age aegean. In the 1870s, a maverick german archaeologist, heinrich schliemann, unearthed the palace and city of mycenae. Later, further palaces were discovered in greece belonging to the same time period: tiryns, pylos and thebes. However, we call the civilization of bronze age greece in general mycenaean after schliemann"s first discovery. Also in the 1870s schliemann discovered troy on the other side of the aegean, in asia minor, Troy, of course, is remembered in the homeric poems, which date to later iron age, as the city against which the greeks waged a great war in an earlier age of heroes. In 1899 a british archaeologist, sir arthur evans, discovered the palace of knossos on crete. Other similar palaces were later discovered at other places on the island.
