The Mycenaeans and Minoans Today: Revivals of Bronze Age Greece

[@anotherelvis]

Talk starts at 4:28

[@Albukhshi]

@ 11:37 It's likely chariot armor. Similar heavy suits were present in China, but made of leather. Similarly, scale suits which were knee-length are known form the Near East, and these were also charioteer suits.

[@johnkefalas]

very intresting lecture...i feel so proud to be greek because of our amazing ancient history :-)

[@hglundahl]

There was a linguist who computer compared trasncriptions of texts in Linear A and considered it Aryan - related to Vedic and Avestan. Is the theory refuted or just the argumentation too brittle, so far?

[@hglundahl]

That linguist was actually a Frenchman, and he was actually more like saying civilisation in India was imported from Crete - which might be why he was perhaps forced to take the site down.

[@hglundahl]

Depends on what civilisation means. Huge administrations were more an East thing, for sure! At least after Stonehenge was finished.

[@pontiacpaul1]

as a argive I'm not proud that my family has looted a lot of gold from mycenaen graves none of u know about. but theres a warrior grave yard and walls probly from around 1100 bc found on my ancestors land. seems most there grave goods were loot from turkey possibly troy. was 100 graves so far found.

[@goognamgoognw6637]

Interesting, thanks for sharing. I have a feeling that Schlieman's findings are insignificant compared to the findings on your ancestors' land. That jew was more interested in his own reputation than about ancient history.

[@hallerd]

dont feel bad because Europeans have been looting the graves of their ancestors since people started to be buried with gold

[@chrisrhodes2]

Why is he saying academics were confused by their lack of traditional Greek representation? They Minoans were not Greek. The DNA evidence has proven they were Semitic I thought and from the Mid East. Of course their culture wouldn't be Greek.

[@usedx115x]

Not Semitic. They found some mountain people from Crete, assumed they were from the Minoans, and a DNA test showed they had more Middle Eastern DNA than modern Greeks, but that doesn't mean Semitic. The Minoans probably came from Anatolia.

[@athdrs7383]

Scienctists say they were Greek : www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-22527821