Palace of Nestor at Pylos in Western Messenia, Vol. 1

Homer's King Nestor of "e;sandy Pylas"e; passes from legend into history in this first volume of the report of excavations on a hill called Englianos in Messenia, conducted by the Archaeological Expedition of the University of Cincinnati. The palace with its contents and the surrounding lower town indicate that this was an administrative center and the capital of a prosperous Mycenaean kingdom. Th...