Linear B tablets from the Palace of Nestor, Pylos: picture

PhotographCC BY-SA 4.0Written in the palace's last year; baked by the fire that destroyed itCopy of Linear B tablets from the Palace of Nestor, Pylos

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The palace archive survives because the destruction fire baked the clay. Linear B ends with the palaces, so these are among the last texts written in Mycenaean Greece; some record rowers and coastal watchers that have been read as preparations against a threat from the sea.

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Palace of Nestor, Pylos · Palace

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1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (revised and updated edition)SRC

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Linear B tablets from the Palace of Nestor, Pylos: picture [Copy CPY0D4658HW4BRF]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/CPY0D4658HW4BRF

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