Clay Tablets Discovered at Knossos: Crete's Ancient Writing Found
Archaeologists at Knossos unearthed a massive cache of clay tablets inscribed with the undeciphered Linear B script, revealing a sophisticated Bronze Age bureaucracy that had long been lost to time. This discovery immediately shifted scholarly understanding of Minoan civilization from a purely mythological culture to a complex society capable of advanced record-keeping and administration.
April 5, 1900
126 years ago
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