![]() ![]() The palace was built in the Bronze Age by the Mycenaeans-the heroes described in Homer’s epic poems-and was first excavated in the 1930s. The archaeologists were part of a group of close to three dozen researchers digging near the ancient Palace of Nestor, on a hilltop near Pylos on the southwest coast of Greece. The pair digging that day, Flint Dibble and Alison Fields, waited for the rain to clear, then stepped down into their meter-deep hole and got to work. ![]() ![]() On the morning of May 28, 2015, the sun gave way to an unseasonable drizzle. Little more than the occasional animal bone, however, came from the soil itself. The archaeologists used picks to break the cream-colored clay, baked as hard as rock, until what began as a cluster of stones just visible in the dirt became four walls in a neat rectangle, sinking down into the earth. They had been digging for days, shaded from the Greek sun by a square of green tarpaulin slung between olive trees. ![]()
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