September 27, 2005
The Home of Brave Ulysses?

Has the tomb of Odysseus been found? The Madera (CA) Tribune seems to think so:

The tomb of Odysseus has been found, and the location of his legendary capital city of Ithaca discovered here on this large island across a one-mile channel from the bone-dry islet that modern maps call Ithaca.

This could be the most important archeological discovery of the last 40 years, a find that may eventually equal the German archeologist Heinrich Schliemann’s 19th Century dig at Troy. But the quirky people and politics involved in this achievement have delayed by several years the process of reporting the find to the world.

Yet visitors to Kefalonia, an octopus-shaped island off the west coast of Greece, can see the evidence for themselves at virtually no cost.

The reason nobody else has heard of it? Well, according to the article, it's all about the greatest Greek invention of them all... politics.

Posted by scott at September 27, 2005 08:23 AM

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