Y-Barton https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Minoan_Linear_A.png

Fae https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linear_B_tablet_from_Nestor%27s_Palace.jpg

The unknown characters written on the artifacts, studied by the great Indian Scholar Emile Burnouf, supposedly “belonged to a very ancient Graeco-Asiatic local alphabet”. Burnouf, post showing the characters to colleague Professor H. Brunn, concluded that “there is a relationship and connection to the Phoenician alphabet (from which the Greek alphabet is derived)” (Schliemann, 25).  Haug derived a connection between the characters at Troy with an inscription on a bronze table found in Cyprus. Allotting this connection to Homer’s travels of the Greek world, Haug stated that “the connection of things found at Troy with these found in Cyprus is in no way surprising, but may be very well reconciled with Homer”. Professor Haug familiarized Cyprus with a caldron in which concepts from the Asiatic, Egyptian, and Greek civilizations molded together, issuing the creation of Greek art. Although writing was not apparent in the Minoan era (Linear A), after the Mycenaean era (Linear B) kick-started at the collapse of Minoan Crete Greek settlers began to arise in Macedon, islands resting in the Aegean Sea, and finally, at Cyprus (Asia Minor). Schliemann attributed the artifact to the expansion of Mycenaean culture throughout Asia Minor, as Homer illustrates during the Trojan War between Mycenae and Troy.