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in 1952, who found that it was an archaic form of Greek. The translation of such tablets in the following years showed that they consisted of part of the royal archive, thus confirming that the palace served as the administrative, political and financial centre of
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went to Pylos and to Nestor, the shepherd of the people, and he received me in his lofty house and gave me kindly welcome, as a father might his own son who after a long time had newly come from afar: even so kindly he tended me with his glorious sons.
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were found. The tablets were taken to the
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being further explored. A breakthrough in translating the Linear B tablets was achieved by
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and trial excavations of Epano
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to protect them from the coming war, and would not be removed from its vaults until 1950.
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were excavated. One contained three decorated jars and the other a collection of Early
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