That's what we mean when we speak about the Mycenaeans

为我们所说的迈锡尼文明
and the Mycenaean Period. And please keep in mind

或者迈锡尼时期请大家牢牢记住
that they are Greek speakers; and we know this with confidence,

他们讲的是希腊语我们已经非常确信这点
something we didn't know at the beginning of the twentieth century,

这个在二十世纪初尚悬而未决的问题
because written evidence is available

因为有了文字记录而被彻底证明了
on a bunch of clay tablets that were accidentally baked

当地出土了一些因火灾而被意外烧制而成的
in some conflagration in these places.

陶土碎片上有明确的文字
The same thing is true of Knossos in Crete,

同样的事情也发生在克里特的克诺索斯
and perhaps a few other sites in Crete.

或者克里特岛其他地区
Not at the same time,

虽然不是在同一时间
but the reason we have any written evidence at all

不过我们能发现这些可读记录
is that there was some kind of conflagration

全靠这些意外的火灾