Ægean archæeology; an introduction to the archæeology of prehistoric Greece . P!u>h>^. J I- //. rKKIK 1. OoiLAS: UKNKKAL \1K\V 2. A SJKEKl IN (^ THE EXCAVATIONS 35 characters are Greek, but the language we cannot is utterly different from Greek, and it does not lookAryan ; all the probabilities are in favour of its beingrelated to the non-Aryan Lycian and Carian tongues,spoken in its near neighbourhood.^ Its interest lies forus in the fact that it is probably the speech of theBronze Age Cretans, the language of the pictographsand of the hieroglyphed tablets from Knossos. T

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Ægean archæeology; an introduction to the archæeology of prehistoric Greece . P!u>h>^. J I- //. rKKIK 1. OoiLAS: UKNKKAL \1K\V 2. A SJKEKl IN (^ THE EXCAVATIONS 35 characters are Greek, but the language we cannot is utterly different from Greek, and it does not lookAryan ; all the probabilities are in favour of its beingrelated to the non-Aryan Lycian and Carian tongues,spoken in its near neighbourhood.^ Its interest lies forus in the fact that it is probably the speech of theBronze Age Cretans, the language of the pictographsand of the hieroglyphed tablets from Knossos. The Eteocretan country seemed likely to produceBronze Age antiquities of far greater importance thanthe few found at Praisos, and the British School nextundertook (in 1903) the excavation of a site on theeastern coast, a few miles away, which bore the name ofPalaikastro, commonly applied to ancient sites in their work was crowned with splendid whole town of the later Bronze Age was uncovered(PI. IV, 2), with quantities of pottery of style and agecorres

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