The Lost Palace Of Nichoria - A Bronze Age Mystery // Ancient Greece History Documentary

In the wilds of southern Greece, olive groves crowd over earthen artifacts strewn with pebbles and masonry of all AAS nestled among brambles and orchards along with scrap metal and plastic, like few other places in the world, this region of the Mediterranean The

ancient

world also has an excess of evidence of not just settlement sites and outposts, but vast metropolises of the ancestors galore, a time when many of those

ancient

settlements surpassed modern cities in both size as well as relative splendor. One such place hidden atop a little-visited ridge in south-central Los Pelones is Nioria, unlike many others, in a wide Ark from here to the north side of the Black Sea and also west to Italy.

This sprawling site does not originate in the archaic or classical eras of Athens' Greek

history

. and Sparta and Alexander the Great nioria dates back to a time before early Greece, as several relics can be found here from those tombs from the time of Meenan from Homer's Odyssey and the quest for the golden fleece, ridden by the monster of Jason, and a desolate colossal citadels of the prehistoric world cyclical masonry and heavily armed chariots warriors riding lords of elaborate

palace

s and intricately crafted technology swords banquets and wine, though little now remains above ground from that ancient era, walk in the once Mighty Citadel here on Nicor ​​today is to gain a fleeting window into the heroic past, as always, I'm your host, Pete Kelly, and I welcome you to

history

time.

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They even offer a 30-day money back guarantee thanks again to Surf Shark VPN. Now we return to the ancient world when archaeologist Carl Blan established upon the unearthing of the ancient ruins of Pylos in 1939, the world watched in amazement as within weeks astonishing discoveries were made in the midst of an immensely impressive

palace

complex dating back to the second millennium to. A complete archive of records written in a mysterious text known as Linear B was unearthed, by far the largest collection on the Greek mainland. It could only have been the long-

lost

library of an ancient European kingdom previously known only in tradition and myth of epic storytelling, very soon the place was named after the wise king who is said to have ruled in In these places, in the days of the Trojan War, the long-gone World of the Iliad and the Odyssey seems to come back to life today, whether strictly historical or not, it still proudly bears that name, the Palace of Nestor, although it was a golden age for archaeological research.

The late 1930s were, of course, a time of immense social turbulence and catastrophic change. Within months after the first excavations at BOS, the Axis powers made their plans a reality. Greece, falling into the orbit of fascist Italy, would fight tenaciously for its independence. In the following years, when Blan was finally able to return to Pylos to regroup with his Greek colleagues as after all the wars, everything had changed, for one thing, radiocarbon dating, a byproduct of the ridiculously high budgets injected into the war effort , was aligning archeology with Modern science for the first time provides exact dates within about 50 years or so, when previously rough estimates had been sufficient, when it came to the very late iiic prehistoric period, the heyday of Myan Greece and the formerly only mythical Trojan War, the new dates were often surprisingly accurate.

According to the estimates of classical scholars unknown to Blan, on the other side of the Atlantic, a New York scholar had been working tirelessly for decades on the linear B tablets found in Cre as early as the late 19th century by Sir Arthur Evans, although Alice Cobra died before. The work could be fully carried out, his efforts and those of many others culminating in 1952 when Linear B was finally successfully translated, as is often the case. The breakthrough came from a strange Michael Ventress, an amateur code-breaker who had long had a hunch that the line would in fact be Greek in its earliest archaic form and that hunch turned out to be correct finally, in the middle of the In the 1950s, for the first time in more than 3,000 years, the words of that ancient land could be read from the stories they told, although they usually consisted of minimal records.

However, instead of epic sagas, they have added almost unfathomable amounts to our understanding of Bronze Age Greece, specifically revealing unique insights into the inner workings of one of its most important kingdoms spanning the distant southwestern province of Messenia, in Homeric tradition, is said to be governed by the kingdom of Pylos. by the wise old Nestor, second only to Agamemnon of Minini in importance, among the hundreds of tablets in the so-called archive complex of Nestor's palace, were found a number now known as the Coast Guard tablets, a unique list of the defenses and settlements in the Kingdom, for administrative purposes, is described as divided into two provinces, which roughly translates as the lands here or nearer and the lands far away are generally assumed to be oriented from pylos, perhaps so Like the recently discovered secondary Capital Center in Ien, not far away, the list begins in the north. part of the near or near province that runs down and along the coast of the peninsula and ends with a single city in the far province, it is possible that the only settlements listed are those on the coast or close enough to the coast as to act as part of a The maritime defense system perhaps explains why most settlements in pylos, unlike Argolids and other places, did not need fortification walls, their domain over the coast being their defence, although today Today there is no consensus given the fragmentary nature of the sources and the absolute antiquity of their time.

However, it has been widely hypothesized that this province or the nearby one lies to the west of the Aelon and Scara Mountains, with the far province and its shorter coast lying within the interior of the Meenan Valley, which is not surprising. . Since its translation, scholars have hypothesized where that city might be translated as the rather indecipherable name Timo aii. It was not the capital, but one of the seven main cities which is generally assumed to be a coastal or near-coastal site, at least as well as being close to the IAL provincial border hoping to find another archive like that in Pylos, the search was carried out.

Of the nearly 200 sites studied over the following decades, only a handful of particularly large candidates were identified as potential locations for Myanmar towns or cities. One of those sites among the 10 largest in all of Mia and a place already highlighted by Ventures colleague and Myan expert John Shadwick, is Nioria, apart from the OSS Table Mountains that rise in the haze to the east , the summit of Nioria provides excellent visibility in all directions. A natural crossroads well situated for communication and defence, just 2 kilometers to the south lies the Meenan Gulf, almost visible today in a narrow coastal strip beyond a mountainous expanse of olive groves.

It is important to remember that coastlines shift and change over thousands of years. years here in ancient times the waves would have been much closer than they do today in the posos tablets Tima Kei is said to have acted as a surveillance station, a node in a vast coastal network, we can imagine runners heading towards beacons that light up to send messages. to the Palace as soon as unwanted visitors were seen, whether they were trading ships to pay taxes or looted, attacks by other Lords of the Meenan Palace or Pirates a little further north, on the adjacent hill, prehistoric remains identified in a way too tentative as a lookout for the city.

Perhaps to protect the exposed back side from surprise visitors with hopes of archives and immense discoveries, archaeologists soon joined the team and knew it was special as soon as they saw it peeking out from deep in the ground. Hollow eyes looking at them from the suffering earth. not much wider than Pin Pricks compared to some of the most famous finds of its kind, such as the lady of fapi and the multitudes of idols found in minini and yet crude, as it is somehow primitive and fearsome, even the so complete Lady of Nioria seems to reside. Within that well-known category of Myan sculpture, the most famous is the one seen with the so-called Idols of Myself, only 0.67 m high, it is a small piece, the lower part of the face unfortunately came off in some time in the past, leaving behind the

mystery

of what this part of the face originally looked like, whether it had been round or long and pointed like the so-called Lord of Aini because of the poop headdress he wears, has been concluded. the Lady, is feminine, perhaps as hypothetical examples of Manan cre.

Depicting a cult priestess when the piece was first sculpted, it may well have reached an impressive third of a meer in height, although no evidence of painting has so far been found. Its sandy, rough surface may simply have worn away over the millennia. The Lady of Nioria remains one of the most interesting pieces found at the site and speaks to a very real Middle Occupation performance that took place here in the late Helical Period 3 3 BC. C., the 13th century BC. The five-year program of large-scale excavation undertaken by the University of Minnesota under the direction of Professor William McDonald was completed in 1974.

Fortunately for the archaeologists involved, a series of fascinating advances had been made. Although Nioria had indeed been a place of great importance. Given the complicated layers of habitation and the significant levels of erosion and damage over the Millennia, the site remained frustratingly difficult to understand from its first arrival in 1969 until the final trenches in 1974, six grueling campaigns of trenches being dug in a total area of ​​50,000 square meters. He excavated meticulously covering an area of ​​5,000 square meters and, although this may seem like a lot, it represented only 10% of the areas that showed evidence of human habitation, as in all excavations priority decisions had to be made in addition to the various pieces of nioria . which were still privately owned and therefore off-limits to digging, only some of the trenches reached intact ground due to time constraints and as a result of the decision not to destroy later buildings to reach the always mysterious missing levels of Meenan.

These were the days when Heinrich Schleman's destructive methods destroyed everything else in his attempt to find what he sought; However, even with these difficulties, the Myan Pottery pieces in Neoria alone had more than 800 small finds, generally more than 2,000 animal bones and sculpture fragments. in particular, it provides important information about the diet architecture of funerary customs and even foreign contacts. Above all, looking for evidence of Nooria's relationship with the rest of the Kingdom of Pylos, one of the most significant finds was the evidence of resident

bronze

smiths like the Lady dated by pottery fragments. the era of the Coast Guard tablets in the 13th century BC.

C. in the 1970s, although John Shadwick eventually changed his mind about nioria, assuming that,after all, it was not timit toi, but potentially another city in the southwestern quadrant of the nearby province. There is no denying its place as a pyan city which matches the descriptions on the tablets, crucially it is all described as having

bronze

industries linked to the palace with contributions being passed back and forth. The bronze work at Nioria provides a rare convergence of contemporary Myan records and archaeology. In 1969, it all began when a test trench in the north and west of the site revealed the foundations of Myan and a huge sigh of relief, although like most areas of the site, it continued to be intensely inhabited well into the High Middle Ages, later ruins were built. at the top obscuring much of the older levels, in this case mysterious geometric structures from the end of the Dark Ages after the Myan period.

And yet, entire streets of that late Bronze Age city were eventually uncovered, especially on its southern side, where the curved walls of the Terrace gave tantalizing clues to the majesty of the place in ancient times on that southern side that runs Along and over the edge of the hill, another wall was found running from the northeast to the west southwest quadrant which may also be of Myan date through this particularly intriguing section. could not be fully excavated, it has been hypothesized to contain the deeply buried remains of a large gated entrance, perhaps not many worlds away from the famous minini and tyrn examples on the western side, in a known section As area five, a number of important finds were discovered. made in that part of the hill which is believed to have once formed a natural ravine or hollow, centuries of plowing and vine cultivation unfortunately caused severe destruction; however, a large amount of material was discovered, including moles in the corners to create intricate jewelry of bands of interlocking ivy leaves and the Lady of Nioria in addition to the bronze work area in unit three and four real bronze goods and other items were found. crafted items, for example, more than 200 spindle worlds dating from the Middle Helix to the so-called Dark Ages after the Myan era were collected, especially in a garbage dump, a large figurine body dating back to the early days from the M Ian settlement, the head was unfortunately missing, although animal figures are quite common at Myan sites, generally assumed to be idols perhaps representing deities, larger ones are found much more rarely, in particular, He found a considerable fragment of an animal figure in Nioria.

It is believed to have originally been a pig measuring around 10cm at the neck, larger when it had a head. It's not the most impressive example ever found, but it puts Nioria within the mainstream of late Bronze Age society at the time, not far off. I found a small horse head similar to those found at Minini and published by Angela Tamaki and yet, for those searching for the lost city of archival records, a single potard provided the most tantalizing evidence of all, suggesting the existence of a literate elite, as it carried an inscription in Linear B, but what about the layout of the settlement where the people lived and what can archeology tell us about their lives?

Unfortunately, the area has suffered so much from erosion and looting over the years that stratified information is patchy at best. More than a detailed plan we have an immensely complicated series of dwellings that obscure the foundations of Myan and when those buildings can be seen they are a far cry from the brilliant palatial centers at the heart of the PO pylos compared to Nestor's Palace and the multi- apartment complex in Ikena have been called crude and provincial, the final reports of the Minnesota expedition, for example, stated with certainty that no building before the Byzantine era had been covered with terracotta tiles, a luxurious style that in elsewhere it had been seen as early as the third century. millennium BC in sites like Lerner in the more prosperous Argolid Nioria did not seem to follow the conventions of more distant capitals, perhaps the elites here simply did not need to invest their wealth in such extravagant displays of power that towered over the hills and plains surroundings. people outside their walls anyway, but what about that Elite as usual for them?

We have some of the best evidence of all, seen most obviously in the powerful tombs of Dros and Thos which survive largely intact to the present day, particularly at Nioria, intricately constructed of limestone, probably used by the ruling dynasty Se It is among the largest and most impressive in the entire Myan world. When it was cleared in 1971 and completely excavated to its original base level in the following years, as expected, most of the tomb's contents are long gone. , several fragments of ivory and bronze. The fragments only give clues to what had once been buried, the only constant in archeology that is often almost completely missing in Oblivion, far from being a modern fact, the initial opening and looting of the tombs took place already at the end from the Myan era in the 4th century.

BC they had become places of veneration once again, just as they probably were at the time of their construction, places to visit revered ancestors, real or imagined structures clearly still prominent like many other thos and chambered tombs at Mia, becoming centers of worship that date back to an era. The heroes of old use at the site a wealth of evidence from the so-called Dark Ages tentatively dating between 1050 and 975 BC. C. among the scree and rubble, including coiled bronze rings, earrings, and an elaborate pin. There is evidence at many Myan sites suggesting some form of continuous habitation, the possibility of collapse here, as in the palace centus, has been suggested with evidence of possible fire, although this is far from definitive, which The evidence definitively shows is that after the so-called Dark Ages, came the Geometric Period, an equally mysterious time even before the Archaic era of Greece, during which time a very small Iron Age village would develop in the section of the site known as area 4, given the evidence from the excavations of the cemeteries, buildings and material assets, there is no doubt of the reuse of the Acropolis in the post-Myan imitation era, approximately after the 11th century BC.

C., often in a greatly reduced state, perhaps after an interval of 100 years, although we cannot say for sure, but what happens? The beginning of Nioria, how it developed and how it became part of the Pylian kingdom when people first came to Nioria, long before fences and cultivated olive groves. Its appearance was very different from today, when those early farming ancestors of the late Stone Age arrived, the place was still a prominent feature, of course, although it had not yet been shaped by the hands of humanity, portions of the cliff edge and hillside were eventually felled and shaped over the centuries, forests covered the land in those days of nald oak pistachio and others. and although now largely invisible from an archaeological perspective, the high places provided good vantage points for settlements, but strangest of all are visible in iCal geological features that indicate coastal erosion at the base of the cliffs , the sea probably lapped the edge of the hill only in relatively recent centuries.

Would the sandy coastal plain we see today begin to form when the revolutionary concept of metalworking first appeared in Greece in the early 3rd millennium BC? C., seeming to go hand in hand with the elites from the beginning? Coastal trade routes became an integral part of the increasingly socially stratified Bronze Age society, Nioria, with its prefabricated defenses and proximity to sea lanes, must have seemed a perfect place. and, as expected, a small autonomous community began to merge. Archaeologist Philip Rap even goes so far as to suggest an archaic situation. The lagoon once extended to the mouth of the Caris River valley, providing not only shelter from storms but also good landing places for small prehistoric boats until it dried up in Roman times.

However, the precise location of the port in Nioria remains a

mystery

, with no excavations so far. However, having confirmed a location in the ever-changing landscape, given the apparent coastal nature of the site, it is not surprising that some of the most impressive remains from the early layers appear to have originated at least under the influence of other locations, in the later ones. As part of the middle helical phase in terms of ceramic styles, there is a great similarity with Minow and Creit, that famous island of palace builders and sailors which classical historians speak of as the first great maritime power or phalos cracia of the aan not .

Far south, in the myth dominated by King Minos, the builder of the labyrinth, archeology also suggests a very real flourishing in the Middle Bronze Age, probably influenced greatly by the power of ancient Egypt; In turn, they probably had a marked effect on people to the north and west along coasts as far north as Troy in those days. Archeology at Nioria suggests a modest dispersal of families widely distributed over the ridge, a community largely autonomous with evidence of metallurgy and although the cultural influence of CRE can be seen, commercial links were undoubtedly fostered with one or more of the palatial centers of the island. no evidence of political or economic domination can be seen.

There are also no burials found that coincide with the creet itself for that period. Hypothetical sky burials or sea burials as means of disposing of Los Muertos suggest that the CIT culture may have been somewhat contagious with the exception of Maly Nioria remains one of the only prehistoric settlements in southwestern Pelones that are has investigated in depth. These two local centers appear to have played similar roles throughout the Middle and Late Helicus. The broader political events of the aan eventually shared the same fate, as in the 16th century BC. C. important changes were coming. In the 16th century BC.

C., the island of Santorini exploded, devastating the island's population and sending tidal waves and clouds of dust across the territory. sea ​​was such the power of the destruction and the resulting tidal waves that the pmus of the eruption can actually be seen in Nioria, much closer to the eruption zone, however, it was CIT. A century of chaos followed and an entirely new system was forged to the north meanwhile in the Argolis of mainland Greece and neighboring Ateka and Boia in bays and inlets protected from Thea's blast wave, the various ious ships and warships of the continent, previously a rather provincial culture would move in and forge the world into a new creit fairly soon and the The rest of the aan would be Myan nioria was no exception as a history of the middle world in miniature, a gradual change being visible in archaeology, as well As a significant population growth, the place appeared to be the center of an emerging political and social unit of considerable importance.

Complexity in the late helic 1 and 2 eras is very much in the mid-world mainstream. One of the main evidence for this comes from cemeteries dating from the early days of the Late Alic and continuing throughout the Myan era, unlike earlier ones. eras the great Lords and Ladies of Nioria were now buried in powerful tombs that are still visible today throughout the last 200 years of scholarship on The Bad World since the Halian days of Schleman and Sunas much emphasis has been placed on Esas and Dros tombs as concrete evidence of the so-called royal dynasties, after all the early researchers reasoned, who else but kings and queens could afford such buildings and yet, in reality, in addition to the immensely rich funerary goods compared to other tombs of the time outside of Homer's catalogue? of ships that speaks at length about small kingdoms, although it is actually written hundreds of years later, there is very little corroborating evidence, the enormous tomb of Angelica in Mykinos, for example, which now languishes as a garbage dump for a hotel in mostly unconscious, although it was once the largest in the entire world. cides does not seem to correspond to a city or nearby center of any known kingdom;

Likewise, we don't actually know if the early so-called kings and queens of Nioria actually controlled the surrounding territories or even the villages that lay far beyond the orbit of the settlement. It is worth asking whether these were actually royal dynasties or whether a multitude of forms of government could have been used as proto-politics of the late classical period, although it seems likelythat the exploitation of land resources in the immediate areas would have been intensive. In addition to the considerable trade that came and went by land and sea without written records, it remains difficult to know whether a poity existed solely on the Acropolis itself or extended into the surrounding area, although clues can be obtained from neighboring sites just 2 kilometers away. and a half away.

In the village of Daphne another tomb is found along with possible indications of an adjacent middle settlement, in case we imagine a completely autonomous neighboring dynasty within 3 kilometers of Nioria or if alternative hypotheses should be sought for those tombs, a cadet branch , maybe like those. that have been suggested for tyrin media and the meini himself or even a ruling family of favorite courtiers appointed as prince princes to oversee towns and cities that are not completely independent politically but follow the capital's funerary customs as best they can and finally we have The question of when, how and even if Nioria was subsumed into the larger polis of Pylos, what we do know is that in the 14th century BC.

C. the appearance of the site marked the beginning of the quality and quantity of finds from the tomb of thos, even when the place had Looting shows that prosperity reached its peak, whether the rulers buried there were put in their place by grounds or not, until the 13th century BC. C. apparently without interruption, we cannot say as to the palace that archaeologists expected, although nothing concrete has been found. During the late helix 3A period there are indications that something similar may once have existed in the central saddle on the southeast side of the ridge, in the location known as area 4, it has been suggested that a very late helix 3 complex eroded is the administrative place. center of the site perhaps once independent and then ruled by a provincial governor who reports to pylos, just as Homer says in The Iliad, then there is the possibility of a dynasty of vassal kings ruled by a superior king who in turn rules units still smaller.

If this distinction was even important to the majority of the inhabitants, we cannot say that life continues as before and, as for the governor of the city, surprisingly, if the place was really Timo AI, the Coast Guard tablets give us its name when I visited Nioria in the late summer of 2022. Much had changed since the days of the Minnesota expedition. It is known that these excavators were near the end of the so-called golden age of archeology due to lack of funding and inclination to carry out large-scale site excavations. As these are rare now, reinterpretation of existing information and small failed excavations have become the norm for many reasons, visiting today is like stepping back in time and although a few people came during our brief time on the ridge, far from the usual hordes. of tourists filling the main sites like Minini and Atenas, most of us had the place to ourselves, no entrance fee, no visitor center or gift shop, some fences to block off-limits areas and precisely for these reasons Visiting Nioria was one of the most memorable experiences of the entire trip, so it was on a sleepy morning on the road from Naphon to Pylos that we made our stop, as far as I could see it had been about 50 years since the place was dug , the trenches still visible and the exposed foundations had become overgrown over the years, dangerous even for unsuspecting passers-by, with few information panels and only scattered fragments to be found.

Online sites like these require imagination, apart from those tombs there are few visible remains, but that is precisely why I love the place for someone who used to The imagination of British fores and Neolithic settlements is often not easy to tell. everything we have: a cyclopean wall or a ridge line, an ancient citadel or a piece of Earth, but to do it, fortunately, we can turn to the records of the excavations themselves and in the late 60s, when the team of Minnesota. Excavating here almost immediately they discovered that the site had been a flourishing settlement although, as we have already seen, one of their great wishes remained to find an archive of linear B tablets like those found at Pylos dating from the late helical period 3B, a end of the 13th century.

B.C. completely involuntary when the place was destroyed by fire Unfortunately, around 1200 BC. C., after about 40 weeks of systematic excavations, no archive or even a conclusive palace center or administrative center was found. A simple pot fragment with a possible Linear B mark was the only evidence that anyone in Nioria had been literate. By using the moos tablets in conjunction with archaeological data, we can gain a wealth of information not only about how Nioria functioned but also about how it was probably ruled, even if his identification as Timo a ke is incorrect for the tablets given to the mayor. of Timo aii at the time of the destruction of pylos a name an extremely rare figure that emerged from those ancient records his name was buts and even if Nioria was a different place it surely also had its own buts what happened to buts or whatever Se completely unknown who had been called mayor of n Toria at the time of the end of the Kingdom, as well as the manner of its destruction and who precisely carried out the violent uprisings at the end of the Bronze Age, being one of the great mysteries of the history.

World history, with the foreign invasion and internal revolution equally suggests that it is rested, it is even possible that our mayor was one of the leaders of the attack on Nestor's Palace, freeing himself from the shackles of distant government in a time of change for Nioria . It may well have survived the end of the Bronze Age at least for a while, but what happened to the buts before that fateful destruction and what can the tablets tell us about the nioria in the very phase before the fall until the change cataclysmic that brought the palace centers of the aan to their knees in the 12th century BC.

C., the resource that kept the world moving was bronze in that time before currency as we would recognize it and when the vast majority of people did not have access to metal of any kind, that alloy of tin and copper was used mainly to forge instruments of powerful weapons of war, beautiful artisanal items and gifts from kings, while copper was rare and only found in a handful of places, tin was practically non-existent, who could gain access to the meager trickles coming from of what is now Afghanistan and perhaps some other places could become extraordinarily rich and, although we do not know enough about Bronze Age trade to speak definitively of monopolies, it seems that in the aan the tin trade was linked over all with the central authorities of the palace centers in Msia in particular. the ground tablets speak of bronze.

Imports are allocated to each city and regional capital in melted down lump sums to then be reworked by the various regional metal smiths, as they saw fit in a fascinating manner in Nioria. Chemical analysis in fact suggests that most of the metal work originated. made from reworked bronze rather than raw tin and copper alloys, chemical analysis also indicates that bronze has an extremely low tin content, perhaps the rarest and most sought-after resource in the world at the time and one that clearly Kings did not abandon the situation lightly. In fact, Nioria bronze has such a low tin content that it can hardly be called tin bronze, and of course, in exchange for that, that bronze that marked Nioria's elite as different regional cities certainly provided a range of services for the The palatial center of Pylos, in exchange for protection, no doubt paid their taxes and, in a pre-monetary system, this came in the form of goods and, when the need arose, military service, in fact, the reason The very reason why the concept of literacy was forged in the first place was to record such transactions and tributes and Linear B is no exception, the surviving tablets mainly record economic information and within the posos tablets in particular we are told about productivity of the various settlements of the Kingdom, no doubt due to the capital provided for their lucrative Wool coats, sheep were by far the most common animal recorded on the tablets, other animals recorded are pigs and some cows used mainly for their skins, although cattle are extremely rare in the archaeological record.

The goats that are not mentioned on the tablets are the most common of all those used. mainly for its milk and meat as sustenance rather than for export to the Palace, in addition to animal products, among the other goods of utmost importance for the Palace economy was Nioria flax, cited in one of the most abundantly irrigated places in a province Exceptionally fertile with no less than five major rivers and wide coastal plains were perfect for the cultivation of this product. Today, the region still produces half of the flax grown in Greece and there is also a convenient overland route to the heart of Pylos to the west, where raw flax could be shipped to Peros was probably a very rich man and if the Tomb of Thalos in Nioria actually contained the remains of the site's leaders, the bones and skull fragments of between 10 and 17 individuals had been found at all but they may well have been buried among them small fragments left by grave robbers giving hints of the bronze vessels, sealed stones and other riches deposited with them for the next world artifacts that clearly place Nioria in the mainstream of Myan society is far from being a backwater as once assumed.

Pottery shards also demonstrate some imports from arid areas and even Minini itself, and in one particularly well-preserved area buildings are carefully aligned along the remains of a well-planned cobbled street, so although it is possible that he has discovered where Parros's life ended, and of course there is no reason to suppose that a palace complex would be recognizable here in the same way as they are at Pylos Tyin Minini or the thieves. One last question remains, where was our governor? They reside in life on both edges of the ridge, slightly elevated areas. The Acropolis within the Acropolis has long been mooted as potential locations for the administrative heart of the city.

The houses of the rulers of Nioria or even a lost palace. One side though suffered extensive damage over time. The Millennia revealed no evidence of Bronze Age occupation along the entire northwestern edge; However, although it also suffered extensive damage during the Millennia, it did reveal evidence of Myan buildings, although only fragments survived if an administrative archive had ever existed here without clear evidence of a conflagration. At the end of the Noorian Bronze Age, the dried tablets would have simply scattered and disintegrated on Earth. Paradoxically, it is only destruction that saves such records from oblivion. Today, Nioria remains dormant awaiting more techniques in the future to unlock the last of its secrets, fortunately. it's safe for now thanks for watching if you enjoyed this video then hit the subscribe button for much more of the same and here's another video I made about an equally fascinating Bronze Age culture.

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