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UC team discovers rare warrior tomb filled with bronze age wealth and weapons
- aurora- 10y agoBasically 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.
- rurban 10y agoI 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_Nestor with a link to an older longer article: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/golden-warrior-greek-tomb-exposes-roots-western-civilization-180961441/ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/golden-warrior-greek-t...
- kpil 10y agoI had to find a readable writeup: http://magazine.uc.edu/editors_picks/recent_features/warrior_tomb.html http://magazine.uc.edu/editors_picks/recent_features/warrior...
- znpy 10y agoThis 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.
- onion2k 10y agoJo 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.
- nsajko 10y agoAlready discussed before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13328148 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13328148 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10454066 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10454066