Qualla: Iklaina https://qualla.com/iklaina en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:30 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Iklaina https://qualla.com/iklaina Iklaina: Introduction https://qualla.com/iklaina/ In a dump of burnt debris next to an ancient sewer — not exactly where you expect history to be hiding — archaeologists found a fragment of clay that changed everything. The tablet, no larger than a palm, bore writing on both sides. Dating to around 1450–1400 BC, it is the earliest Mycenaean Linear B inscription yet discovered on the Greek mainland, and it came not from one of the grand palace sites everyone had heard of, but from the low hills of Iklaina, a village about 10 kilometres northeast of Pylos that most people have never heard of at all.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/x/6/iklaina-wp/sqx6-iklaina-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Iklaina: A City Hiding Under a Village https://qualla.com/iklaina/ The modern settlement of Iklaina sits quietly in the Messenian landscape, olive groves and stone walls giving little hint of what lies beneath. Systematic excavation began in 2006, led by Michael Cosmopoulos of the University of Missouri–St. Louis in partnership with the Athens A...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/x/6/iklaina-wp/sqx6-iklaina-a-city-hiding-under-a-village.mp3 0:06 2 full Iklaina: Painted Ships and Ancient Sewers https://qualla.com/iklaina/ During the 2009 excavation season, more than 2,500 fragments of wall paintings came to light. One surviving fragment is particularly striking: it depicts a ship with three human figures and dolphins, alongside a procession of women. The imagery is vivid and confident, painted by ...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/x/6/iklaina-wp/sqx6-iklaina-painted-ships-and-ancient-sewers.mp3 0:06 3 full Iklaina: The Tablet That Changed the Story https://qualla.com/iklaina/ The most important find from Iklaina came not from the grand terrace or the painted halls but from a rubbish heap: a burnt clay tablet fragment, written on both sides in Linear B script. Radiocarbon and ceramic dating placed it in the LHIIB–IIIA1 period — roughly 1450 to 1400 BC....

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/x/6/iklaina-wp/sqx6-iklaina-the-tablet-that-changed-the-story.mp3 0:06 4 full Iklaina: Rise, Fall, and Absorption https://qualla.com/iklaina/ The evidence from Iklaina tells a story of political turbulence. During the LH IIB/IIIA1 period, the city appears to have been an autonomous Mycenaean state — a small but real polity with its own palace, its own administrative scribes, and its own ambitions. Archaeologists believ...

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