More than a century has passed since Heinrich Schliemann brought to light the brilliant treasures of Mycenae. The rich appearance of the gold-covered warriors, still lying in their graves, confirmed to the world the truth about Homer's epic and the real historical existence of the Achaeans described in his poems. By the combined study of the mythical tradition, archaeological findings and written sources represented by the Linear B tablets (which are written in a very archaic form of Greek, in a syllabic script) our knowledge of Achaean civilization has advanced greatly. The Achaeans were an Indo-European group probably arriving on the Greek mainland from the Caucasus or Asia Minor around 2000-1800 BC. These groups conquered and absorbed the previous indigenous population who, since the Neolithic Period, inhabited Greece and the Aegean Islands.
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