This morning in Church it was my turn to read the lesson from the Hebrew scriptures, about Joseph being sold to the Ishmaelites for 20 pieces of Silver (Genesis 37). I also read the assigned part of Psalm 105, where this story also comes up.
17He sent a man before them, *
Joseph, who was sold as a slave. 18They bruised his feet in fetters; *
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Extensive remains of vast Mycenaean citadel revealed
A team of archaeologists is excavating the remains of a vast ancient Mycenaean citadel, known as Glas or Kastro (castle)....The area is estimated to measure ten times the size of the ancient citadel of Mycenaean Tiryns and seven times that of Mycenae.
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Ariadne

History is much too messy for simplistic interpretations.

The Lost Community of Lefkandi

I particularly noticed:
From around 1250 BC onwards, post-Mycenaean ‘refugee’ settlements began to appear, establishing a pattern that was to continue throughout the Dark Ages (Whitley 2011: 77-78). The characteristic Dark Age remote, defensible positions, often over 500m above sea level - as in evidence at Karphi ( Read more... )

• Someone You Should Know: Alice Kober
• Alice E. Kober, 43

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In classical Greek theater, a tragic trilogy was often followed by a "satyr play" on the same subject for comic relief. Such a play accompanied the Oresteia by Aeschylus, but, alas, it has not survived.

However, when the BBC did a television version of the Oresteia in 1979, called The Serpent Son, they had two modern writers fill this gap. The ( Read more... )

An Ivory Rod with a Cuneiform Inscription. Abstract [I added a few web links]:
The subject of this contribution is the fragment of an ivory rod with six cuneiform signs that was found in 2002. The rod came to light in a destruction layer dating to LH III BFinal within a workshop for skilled crafting inside Building XI which is situated in the ( Read more... )

Helen's Daughter is about the life of Hermione, daughter of Menelaus and Helen of Troy, and granddaughter of Atreus (Hence the Amazon blurb's reference to "the curse that haunts her family"). The author, Laura Gill, knows the Mycenaean Greek world very well and tells a gripping and realistic story about what Hermione's life might actually have ( Read more... )

The First Heroes
The First Heroes: New Tales of the Bronze Age. The stories are a mix of Historical Fiction, SF, Fantasy, and one of Altenate History. Fantasy comes ( Read more... )

.... A surprising Bronze Age discovery. More on the Oldest known written record in Europe. Via Explorator.