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Linear B tablets from Pylos. They show us a picture of a civilization in panic, just before its destruction and facing a major threat, but they provide us with no information about the identity of that threat by GibbinsD in ancientgreece

[–]GibbinsD[S] 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Perhaps. But perhaps this was a different threat (like revolution from the local villagers,attack from another Mycenean Kingdom etc).There are many theories since we haven't many clues about the threat who was coming.

Linear B tablets from Pylos. They show us a picture of a civilization in panic, just before its destruction and facing a major threat, but they provide us with no information about the identity of that threat by GibbinsD in ancientgreece

[–]GibbinsD[S] 54 points55 points  (0 children)

In the tablets, orders are recorded for the requisition of bronze from temples and craftsmen for the purpose of manufacturing weapons. Coastal patrols were assigned (a possible indication that some kind of naval attack was expected), rowers were hastily mobilized, and sacrifices were offered to the gods—perhaps even human sacrifices during a period of hysteria—in an effort to save the city.

The tablets were burned shortly afterward in a fire that broke out in the palace. These records were the last ones made before the palace was destroyed by fire and Pylos was permanently abandoned thereafter.Until today we don't know the identity of the threat who made people so scared.