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importance of linear b tablets to mycenaean civilisation

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  The Linear B tablets are incredibly important to our understanding of Mycenaean Civilisation for a number of reasons. These reasons I shall be explaining in this essay.
       In 1939 1,200 Linear B tablets were excavated in Pylos. Many more tablets were excavated at an earlier date such as the 7,000 tablets that were recovered in the palace of Knossos. Other tablets have been found at Mycenae, Tiryns, Thebes and Chanin along with clay pots with inscriptions on, telling of the contents. The tablets from Pylos date from around the Trojan war (13 BC) and the tablets found in the palace of Knossos date from around (14 BC). The Linear B tablets have only ever been found in Palaces. This shows that it was a palace craft and it was posssible that people were trained to be able to write in Linear B. Ordinary people couldn't use it. Even though some of the tablets were discovered in 1939, it was 13 years later in 1952 when they were translated by Michael Ventris...