[Verginius Rufus]

Blegen was very lucky to find the palace in 1939, months before World War II broke out. The name Pylos was associated with that area but they did not know the exact location of the palace. Supposedly Blegen asked himself, “If I was a Mycenaean prince, where would I build my palace?” He chose a likely spot and hit pay dirt right away, quickly discovering the palace archive with the Linear B tablets.

[SunkenCiv]

In Search of the Trojan War is a 1985 6-part British TV documentary series written and presented by Michael Wood. It examines the extent to which historical and archeological evidence matches with the tale of the Trojan War as recounted by Homer in The Iliad.

(time index set to the discussion of the Palace of Nestor; I think the snippet of Blegen's footage of the excavations is in the installment about the Hittite archive)

In search of the Trojan war - The Women of Troy (4/6) | April 26, 2013 | Quidam Graecus