Makis Finds the Tomb
Clip: 8/28/2024 | 2m 37sVideo has Closed Captions
Makis Metaxas believes Odysseus' kingdom was in his hometown on the island of Kefalonia.
Makis Metaxas believes Odysseus' kingdom was in his hometown on the island of Kefalonia. In 1991, while he was mayor of the small port of Poros, he and his wife Hettie Metaxas-Putman Cramer read geographic clues in Homer to develop a theory on the location of the ancient kingdom of Ithaca. Then Makis spent six months walking around looking for the large rocks used in Mycenaean buildings.
Makis Finds the Tomb
Clip: 8/28/2024 | 2m 37sVideo has Closed Captions
Makis Metaxas believes Odysseus' kingdom was in his hometown on the island of Kefalonia. In 1991, while he was mayor of the small port of Poros, he and his wife Hettie Metaxas-Putman Cramer read geographic clues in Homer to develop a theory on the location of the ancient kingdom of Ithaca. Then Makis spent six months walking around looking for the large rocks used in Mycenaean buildings.
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There was this photograph of the tomb, the entrance, when it was found by Maki which was between the trees.
He saw the stone of the entrance.
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In 1992, the discovery of a tomb leads to claims that the body buried there is King Odysseus. (1m 37s)
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The 1992 excavation of the tomb Makis Metaxas found gives up an incredible piece of evidence. (2m 36s)
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Ismini Milliaresis describes the archeological dig that took place on her family's land on Kefalonia (2m 25s)
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An ancient tomb might prove that the hero of Homer’s Odyssey really existed. (30s)
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Homer calls Odysseus “King of the Ithacans.” But there are no Mycenaean ruins on modern-day Ithaki. (1m 55s)
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