Back in 2015, archaeologists made a discovery in Greece that was heralded as one of the country’s most important finds in centuries. Digging near Pylos, Sharon Stocker and Jack Davis, both researchers at the University of Cincinnati, led a team that uncovered a 3,500-year-old undisturbed tomb filled with an enormous array of treasures.
They had found the Griffin Warrior, who they would later determine to be one of the first possible kings in Pylos. And with a recent DNA analysis, researchers know more of where this warrior was from and the region he ruled over.
Stocker and Davis made their discovery on the first day of excavating an olive grove near the ancient Palace of Nestor, a place they were not expecting to dig.
“The field where the Griffin Warrior was plan B, which is ironic because it's one of the most amazing finds that anybody can ever have,” Stocker ...
