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Wednesday, April 5, 2017

On this day in 1900: Archaeologists find the key to a 3,000-year-old lost Greek civilisation

Arthur Evans was Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. On 5 April 1900, he was digging at Knossos in Crete, when he stumbled across a cache of clay tablets covered in an indecipherable script. The writing had just short of 90 characters, numerals ...


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