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Clay tablets hold key to tale of Helen, Paris and the siege of Troy
New archaeological finds show that Homeric and Hollywood epics may be based on more than just myth : "The famous story - originally told in Homer's epic poem The Iliad - has always been considered more myth than reality. Now, says Ms Hughes, a collection of shattered tablets discovered beneath the Greek city of Thebes could completely overturn that belief.
'There is no doubt that this discovery is one of the keys that will unlock the story of Troy,' Ms Hughes said yesterday. 'The tablets that have been rescued at Thebes mean we are having to re-draft the Bronze Age map. What is emerging is a picture of a world remarkably close to that described by Homer.'
The fragmented tablets, inscribed in the ancient script known as Linear B, have been dated back to the 13th century BC - the period when the Trojan war is supposed to have been fought. A number of pieces are still emerging from the site.
'It's fabulously frustrating,' said Ms Hughes. 'The tablets are slowly, slowly being deciphered, but it is like putting together a massive jigsaw.'
Promisingly, the tablets already decoded mention a number of key names from Homer - including lost or vanished cities that supplied ships for the famous fleet led by Agamemnon and Achilles. This, says Ms Hughes, is highly significant, as the tablets pre-date Homer's supposedly fictional work by around 500 years.
'Up until now, no one has written seriously about the characters in The Iliad: the people who make it live and breathe,' said Ms Hughes, who has been working on a biography of Helen for the past four years. 'Evidence like this means that at last we can start to draw lines between the three points of the triangle - the archaeological, textual and literary sources.'"

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