Greek Archaeologists Claim They Discovered Odysseus' Palace

Novinite ^ | August 24, 2010 | unattributed

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Greek archaeologists have claimed they have found the palace of Odysseus during excavations on the Ithaca island in the Ionian Sea.

On Tuesday, the archaeologist, Thanasis Papadopulos, who has been leading the excavation team on Odysseus' home island for 16 years, said that he knew the right place of the remains since 2006.

"We found the ruins of a three-level palace with a staircase carved into the rock," Papadopulos said, adding that they also found a well, dating back to 13th century BC, when the Trojan War is believed to have taken place.

According to the archaeologist, the discoveries are identical to the ones described in Homer's Odyssey, presumably written about 8th century BC.

The Greek Ministry of Culture has provided more funding for the continuation of the excavations.

The mayor of Ithaca, Spiros Arsenis, has stated that Papadopulos' discovery is easily one of the most important discoveries in modern archeology, as reported by the Russian news agency RIA Novosti.

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After 16 years of excavations on the Ithaca island, the Greek archaeologists have announced they have found the palace of Odysseus. File photo

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[SunkenCiv]

from the Odysseus keyword:

nice omnibus of topics times two:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1490367/posts?page=109#109
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1807729/posts?page=10#10

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks!

[Plutarch]

Did they find a dog tag that read “Argos”?

[Little Bill]

Looks like old Big Ears got found out.

[gunsofaugust]

Nice SunkenCiv. Real nice.

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[Pharmboy]

Nice job...broad smile here.

[wildbill]

No, but they found a unfinished burial shroud.

[eleni121]

Wonderful story..thanks SC

ALthough there are debates about whether the island of Ithaka is the same Ithaka of Homer (some say it is other islands nearby), Homer himself described it thus:

” dwell in shining Ithaca. There is a mountain there,
high Neriton, covered in forests. Many islands
lie around it, very close to each other,
Doulichion, Same, and wooded Zacynthos—
but low-lying Ithaca is farthest out to sea,
towards the sunset, and the others are apart, towards the dawn and sun.
It is rough, but it raises good men.”

[SunkenCiv]

A few years back some cores were taken that showed that there had been a harbor back then which has since filled in.

Was There a Trojan War?
Evidence from Hittite Records
by J.D. Hawkins
May/June 2004

A long letter from a Hittite king, probably Hattusili III (who ruled circa 1267-1237 B.C.), to the king of Ahhiyawa mentions that Wilusa was once a bone of contention between the two. The location of Ahhiyawa has been controversial since its earliest recognition in the Hittite texts in the 1920s. The scattered references to it suggested that it lay across the sea and that its interests often conflicted with those of the Hittites. What is now known of the geography of western Anatolia makes it clear that there could be no room on the mainland for the kingdom of Ahhiyawa. Furthermore, the references to the political interests of Ahhiyawa on the west coast mesh well with increasing archaeological evidence for Mycenaean Greeks in the area, so that it is now widely accepted that "Ahhiyawa" is indeed the Hittite designation for this culture.

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  Smithsonian Magazine ^ | Fergus M. Bordewich, Photographs by Jeffrey Aaronson

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  BBC News ^ | Wednesday, 11 October 2006 | Jonathan Amos

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• Engineers To Help Find Homer's Itacha

  03/27/2007 3:15:17 PM PDT · by blam · 14 replies · 476+ views

  Yahoo News ^ | 3-26-2007 | Derek Gatopoulos

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[SunkenCiv]

:’D

[Redcitizen]

Did they find the Ithaca shotgun mounted on Odyssesus’s fireplace?

[Vendome]

I’ve been keeping an “eye out” for that place too.

Did they find his mom?

[SunkenCiv]

I thought the “eye out” joke was something Odysseus said to the Cyclops? ;’)

[SunkenCiv]

Not sure, but we can be certain that, after 20 years apart, Odysseus was so glad to see his wife Penelope again that he slaughtered all her suitors, and then she immediately changed the subject to "what's our bed look like"? :')