{"id":241,"date":"2015-10-27T18:49:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T18:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/?p=241"},"modified":"2015-10-27T18:51:28","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T18:51:28","slug":"bronze-age-tomb-found-at-pylos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/2015\/10\/27\/bronze-age-tomb-found-at-pylos\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronze Age Tomb Found at Pylos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story-continues-1\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/files\/2015\/10\/27PYLOSCOVER-master1050-v2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-243\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/files\/2015\/10\/27PYLOSCOVER-master1050-v2-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"27PYLOSCOVER-master1050-v2\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/files\/2015\/10\/27PYLOSCOVER-master1050-v2-1024x575.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/files\/2015\/10\/27PYLOSCOVER-master1050-v2-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/files\/2015\/10\/27PYLOSCOVER-master1050-v2-624x351.jpg 624w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/files\/2015\/10\/27PYLOSCOVER-master1050-v2.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a>Archaeologists digging at Pylos, an ancient city on the southwest coast of <a class=\"meta-loc\" title=\"More news and information about Greece.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/international\/countriesandterritories\/greece\/index.html?inline=nyt-geo\">Greece<\/a>, have discovered the rich grave of a warrior who was buried at the dawn of European civilization.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-2\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\">He lies with a yardlong bronze sword and a remarkable collection of gold rings, precious jewels and beautifully carved seals. Archaeologists expressed astonishment at the richness of the find and its potential for shedding light on the emergence of the Mycenaean civilization, the lost world of Agamemnon, Nestor, Odysseus and other heroes described in the epics of Homer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">\u201cProbably not since the 1950s have we found such a rich tomb,\u201d said James C. Wright, the director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Seeing the tomb \u201cwas a real highlight of my archaeological career,\u201d said Thomas M. Brogan, the director of the Institute for Aegean Prehistory Study Center for East Crete, noting that \u201cyou can count on one hand the number of tombs as wealthy as this one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">Open the URL for more information!<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/10\/27\/science\/a-warriors-grave-at-pylos-greece-could-be-a-gateway-to-civilizations.html?smid=fb-nytimes&#038;smtyp=cur&#038;_r=1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archaeologists digging at Pylos, an ancient city on the southwest coast of Greece, have discovered the rich grave of a warrior who was buried at the dawn of European civilization. He lies with a yardlong bronze sword and a remarkable collection of gold rings, precious jewels and beautifully carved seals. Archaeologists expressed astonishment at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":287,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}