The Palace of Nestor (20 min)

The elaborate two-story complex (13th-12th century BC) with royal apartments and workshops is unique among Mycenaean palaces due to its complete lack of defensive walls. The Palace of Nestor, the wise old king of Homeric fame, was unearthed in 1939, revealing more than 600 clay tablets inscribed with a mysterious script that has come to be known as Linear B, the first written language in history to use syllabic signs.

These finds, inscribed with a script that represents the oldest known Greek dialect, proved to be as astonishing as Schliemann’s discovery of the magnificent gold artifacts of Mycenae.