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Article: Oct. 2009: 'The Worlds Oldest Submerged Town' Archaeologists surveying the worlds oldest submerged town have found ceramics dating back to the Final
Neolithic. Their discovery suggests that Pavlopetri, off the southern Laconia coast of Greece, was occupied some
5,000 years ago at least 1,200 years earlier than originally thought.
(Link to Full Article)
The classic symbol of two flanking lions has middle eastern roots
tracing back to Sumeria, where the hero/king Gilgamesh was always
portrayed in such a way. Flanking lions are also found at the gates of
Important Middle eastern cities such as Boghazkoy and Alaja Hyk .
'Cyclopean' Walls.
The renowned cyclopean walls of Tiryns and Mycenae are attributed to the Mycenaeans, also called the Achaeans or
Pelasgians, and are generally assigned to the 14th and 13th centuries BCE. Greek tradition asserts that they were built
by the Cyclopes, mythical one-eyed giants.
No cement was used with the masonry. The blocks were cut to fit together perfectly, with the largest (the
lintel), weighing around 120 tons.
(Link to the Top-50 Megaliths)
According to Wilhelm Dorpfeld it is true that:
'...all these tombs, great as well as small, were once closed; the only question is when it was done. As both the
great tholoi at Mycenae were provided with rich faades and had their wooden doors overlaid with metals, it
appears to me more probable that they were not forthwith blocked up. . . . it is the fact that the walls, built to block
up the two great tholoi, are not of the same material as the tombs themselves'. -- Dorpfeld's Introduction to The
Mycenaean Age -- A Study of the Monuments and Culture of Prehomeric Greece by Chrestos Tsountas and J.
Irving Manatt (1897), pp. xxvi-xxvii
This means that the skeletons found in some tholoi could date from a later period, and proof that skeletons
found inside the tholoi do not belong to the period of the original builders is found in the observation that:
As a rule, the body was simply laid on the floor of the tholos or the chamber, not covered with earth nor placed in
a coffin of wood or stone, of which not a trace has yet been found. . . . For repeated observations prove that, as
often as the area of the chamber or the tholos became crowded with corpses, the earlier remains were gathered
in heaps in the corners, or buried in shallow trenches, so as to make room for the new interments. -- Ibid., pp.
136-7
Pennick (28), notes that the Roman author Varro compared the omphalos shape with a treasury, the name commonly
applied to dome-shaped graves (such as the Treasury of Atreus at Mycenae, so described by Pausanias). The suggestion
that the Treasury of Atreus may be an omphalos of negative space, is of interest as we are told that the site was
Treasury was built on the site of the old oracle of the earth goddess herself, with legends stating that Python, the serpent
spirit of the earth, lays buried there having been killed by Apollo the sun god.
(More about Omphalos)
The Mycenaean tombs or Tholos all had curved lintels over the entrances.
In 1953, a carving of what appears to be a Mycenaean dagger (below, left), was found carved onto a stone at Stonehenge.
This discovery raised the suggestion that the stones were raised by Mycenaean architects as the nearest artefacts with
any similarity to this dagger are those found in Mycenae.
However, the date for the erection of the bluestones at Stonehenge has since been revised, as pointed out
in the book Hengeworld by Mike Pitts, (0-09-927875-8), on page 341 he states that the "large sarsen
structures" of Stonehenge have been dated with 95% confidence to between 2461 & 2205 bce., at the
inside more than 600 years earlier .. It also seems to place these carvings well after the bluestone circle &
oval, said to date from between 2267 & 1983 bce. (page 342).
At best then, the dagger might represent a Mycenaean visit to Stonehenge, but no more.
(More about Stonehenge)
Mycenaean daggers.
'It would take a very skilful man to-day, a man who was both goldsmith and artist, to make such daggers as men found at
Mycenae. First the blade was made. Then the artist took a separate sheet of bronze for his design. This sheet he enamelled,
and on it he inlaid his design. On one of these daggers we see five hunters fighting three lions. Two of the lions are running
away. One lion is pouncing upon a hunter, but his friends are coming to help him. If you could turn this dagger over, you would
see a lion chasing five gazelles. The artist used pure gold for the bodies of the hunters and the lions; he used electron, an alloy
of gold and silver, for the hunters' shields and their trousers; and he made the men's hair, the lions' manes, and the rims of the
shields, of some black substance. When the picture was finished on the plate, he set the plate into the blade, and riveted on
the handle. On the smaller dagger we see three lions running'. (Jaennie Hall)
(Passage Mounds)
(Other Greek locations)
References:
1). http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:czCzAbRH7P0J:www.geo.lt/Seminaras_2008/Pages 103-148.PDF+delphi+prehistoric&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=uk
2). Ledworth, M and Klauss Heinmann. 2007. The Orb Project. Beyond Worlds Publishing. pp 158-163.
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