April 6, 2011

  • Posted with permission of Dr. Michael Cosmopoulos , who also had this posted to AegeaNet: Dear colleagues, Thank you for sharing our excitement at the discovery of a Linear B tablet from Iklaina. In the last few days it has led to some good publicity for the Aegean Bronze Age. But since media reports rarely…

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  • ante diem viii idus apriles ludi Megalesia (day 3) 648 B.C. — solar eclipse possibly referred to in a fragment of a poem by Archilochus (Zeus, the father of the Olympic Gods, turned mid-day into night, hiding the light of the dazzling Sun; and sore fear came upon men.) 46 B.C. — Julius Caesar defeats…

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