𐀁𐀔𐁀 Hermahai
hermahai.bsky.social
𐀁𐀔𐁀 Hermahai
@hermahai.bsky.social
📚 Enthusiast of the prehistoric civilizations of the Aegean and Greek protohistory.
🔎 Mycenaeans, Minoans, Aegean Scripts, but also Greek Early Iron Age.
🌐 https://x.com/hermahai
1/ Ancient Greek texts refer to a mythical king of Crete with divine origins and extraordinary abilities, Minos. Thucydides reports that Minos was the most ancient king of Crete, who dominated the entire Aegean with a powerful fleet (Minoan Thalassocracy). #Minoans
December 22, 2024 at 10:59 AM
1/ In 1903, during his excavations at Knossos, and specifically in a palatial area to the south of the Throne Room, Arthur Evans brought to light two elaborate Minoan figurines of a clearly ceremonial nature. He named the site of the figurines' discovery "Temple Repositories".
#Minoans
December 17, 2024 at 6:22 PM
[PART TWO] CHG/IRF-related ancestry. From the plateaus of the Caucasus and NW Zagros to the Aegean Archipelago.
#Caucasus #Aegean #Dimini
December 10, 2024 at 6:49 PM
[PART ONE] Caucasus Hunter-Gether / Iran Neolithic Farmer lineage: When, where and through what processes did its formation take place.
#Caucasus #Zagros #CHG_IRF
December 7, 2024 at 3:40 AM
A new archaeogenetic research with new genetic samples from the Aegean Bronze Age.
Some observations regarding the research findings.
#Proto_Greeks #Mycenaeans

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Ancient genomics support deep divergence between Eastern and Western Mediterranean Indo-European languages
The Indo-European languages are among the most widely spoken in the world, yet their early diversification remains contentious (1-5). It is widely accepted that the spread of this language family acro...
www.biorxiv.org
December 3, 2024 at 7:49 PM
1/ In 1903, the Italian archaeologist Roberto Paribeni discovered inside an elite chamber tomb (Tomb 4) in the area of the royal Villa of Hagia Triada, Crete, one of the most important artifacts of Aegean art: the Hagia Triada sarcophagus. It is dated to around 1400 BC.
#Minoans #Myceneans
December 1, 2024 at 6:10 AM
1️⃣ "Son of Laertes-mastermind-what a fine, faithful wife you won! What good sense resided in your Penelope - how well Ikarios' daughter remembered you, Odysseus, the man she married! The fame of her great virtue will never die. The immortal gods will lift a song for all mankind, 👉
November 27, 2024 at 5:50 PM
1/ The Pelasgians constitute one of the greatest chimeras of the modern scientific community, as the ancient Greek sources referring to this mysterious people hover on the borders of myth and a faded historical memory, each time motivated by various motives.
#Pelasgians
November 26, 2024 at 4:52 AM
Woman is a source of life, love and wisdom.
#StopViolenceAgainstWomen
November 25, 2024 at 7:12 PM
Achilles: An example of the linguistic continuity of Hellenism through naming.
From the textual sources of Linear B to the Christian saints of late antiquity.
#Achilles #LinearB #Hellenism
November 20, 2024 at 3:37 AM
1/ Linguistic and archaeogenetic studies have shown that the Mycenaeans were the oldest ancestors of modern Greeks. However, by reading the Mycenaean texts we discover impressive evidence regarding the continuity of Hellenism from the Late Bronze Age to the present day.
#Mycenaeans
November 18, 2024 at 9:04 AM
Phastos disc: Part Two.
A genius artifact with clear Minoan origins.
#Phsistos_disc
#Minoans #Aegean_Scripts
#Cretan_Hieroglyphs
#LinearA #LinearB
November 16, 2024 at 10:26 PM
Phastos disc: Part One.
A magical journey to the most controversial point in Aegean prehistoric scripts.
#Phsistos_disc
#Minoans #Aegean_Scripts
#Cretan_Hieroglyphs
#LinearA #LinearB
November 16, 2024 at 12:11 PM
1/ Attempting to determine who the Mycenaeans were, we could say that they were a Greek tribe that formed in central and southern Greece through the mixing of Proto-Greek groups, which descended from their northern cradle to the south, and a strong local Pre-Greek population.
November 12, 2024 at 5:17 PM