Linear B clay tablets fires preserved records

Fires accidentally preserved records from ancient Greece

Linear B tablets were usually made from clay and used for administrative records in Mycenaean palaces. Many were never intended to survive for thousands of years. When palace buildings burned, however, the heat hardened some tablets and preserved them. Destruction helped save the documents that later revealed an early form of written Greek.

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Belgium's industrial heartland became its poorer region

For much of the nineteenth century, French-speaking Wallonia was Belgium's industrial powerhouse, rich in coal mines and steelworks. As heavy industry declined, economic growth increasingly shifted toward Dutch-speaking Flanders. The reversal changed the balance of wealth between the regions and added an economic dimension to Belgium's linguistic and political tensions.

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Linear B clay tablets fires preserved records

Fires accidentally preserved records from ancient Greece

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