Iklaina

<p>Iklaina  is a historic village in the municipal unit of <a href="/facts/Pylos/5qa0u1Xw">Pylos</a>, <a href="/facts/Messenia/UrNT9eEh">Messenia</a>, <a href="/facts/Greece/lqHw8bTB">Greece</a>. The settlement, which is situated in low hills approximately 10 km (6.2 mi) northeast of <a href="/facts/Pylos/5qa0u1Xw">Pylos</a>, stands upon the remains of a <a href="/facts/Late_Bronze_Age/c09qWcTt">Late Bronze Age</a> (ca. 1600-1100 BC) city. An archaeological site has been surveyed and excavated there by the <a href="/facts/Athens_Archaeological_Society/Q4NPeh75">Athens Archaeological Society</a> and the <a href="/facts/University_of_Missouri%25E2%2580%2593St._Louis/rheokuPK">University of Missouri–St. Louis</a> under the direction of <a href="/facts/Michael_Cosmopoulos/7T3hy7tX">Michael Cosmopoulos</a>. Finds include an early <a href="/facts/Mycenae/FXGtmBkF">Mycenaean</a> palace, giant terrace walls, murals, an advanced drainage system, and a clay tablet dating from between 1450 and 1350 B.C. that features an early example of writing known as <a href="/facts/Linear_B/caBvXdPb">Linear B script</a>. Other cultural periods represented are the <a href="/facts/Classical_antiquity/JBq8vEX9">Late Classical</a> and <a href="/facts/Byzantine/njEELXWF">Byzantine periods</a>.
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