Editing Pylos (section)

=== The Palace of Nestor ===
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[[File:Palace of Nestor mausoleum (2).jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|Tholos tomb at the Palace of Nestor (Tomb IV)|left]]North of Pylos ({{cvt|17|km|mi}}) and south of the town of [[Chora, Messinia|Chora]] (4 kilometres), is the hill of ''Ano Englianos'' which houses the Mycenaean [[Bronze Age]] palace known as the "Palace of Nestor" (1600–1200 BC). This palace remains today in Greece the best preserved palace and one of the most important of all [[Mycenaean Greece|Mycenaean civilization]]. The remains of the palace consist of the throne room with its foyer, an anteroom, passageways, large warehouses, the external walls of the palace, unique baths, galleries, and 90 meters away from the palace, a [[Beehive tomb|beehive tholos tomb]] (funerary chamber with dome) perfectly restored in 1957 (''Tholos tomb IV)''. Very recently, in 2015, the team of American archaeologists [[Sharon Stocker]] and [[Jack L. Davis]] of the [[University of Cincinnati]] discovered and excavated, near the palace, the [[Griffin Warrior Tomb|tomb of the "Griffin Warrior"]], and even more recently in 2017, two other tholos tombs (''Tholos tombs VI and VII''), all three containing a multitude of cultural artifacts and jewels of exceptional delicacy (such as the [[Pylos Combat Agate]] or a golden pendant depicting the head of the Egyptian goddess [[Hathor]], which show that Pylos had trading connections, previously unknown, with Egypt and the Near East around 1500 B.C.E).<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":6" /><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/17/science/tombs-archaeology-ancient-greece.html |title=Tombs at Ancient Greek Site Were Gold-Lined Chambers |newspaper=The New York Times |date=17 December 2019 |last1=Wade |first1=Nicholas |access-date=13 April 2020 |archive-date=14 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200414072357/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/17/science/tombs-archaeology-ancient-greece.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In June 2016, the site reopened to the public after 3 years of work to replace the old roof of the 1960s with a modern structure with elevated walkways for visitors. The archaeological site of the Palace of Nestor can be visited every day, except on holidays and on Tuesdays.<ref name=":82">Admission days and hours on the site of the Ministry of Culture and Sports: ''[http://odysseus.culture.gr/h/3/eh355.jsp?obj_id=2562 Palace of Nestor] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210518164404/http://odysseus.culture.gr/h/3/eh355.jsp?obj_id=2562 |date=2021-05-18 }}''</ref><gallery widths="250" heights="250">
File:Two Mycenaean chariot warriors on a fresco from Pylos about 1350 BC.jpg|Warriors on a chariot. Fresco in Nestor's palace (LHIIIA/B period, around 1350 BC)
File:Lyre Player and Bird Fresco from Pylos Throne Room.jpg|Lyre Player and Bird. Fresco in Nestor's palace (LHIIIB period, around 1300 BC)
File:Battle Scene Fresco from Pylos.jpg|Battle Scene. Fresco in Nestor's palace (LHIIIB period, around 1300 BC)
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