where he thought it might be, Mycenae, from Homer's account--

根据荷马的叙述他认为迈锡尼城在那里
I wouldn't be telling you this story,

我想不用告诉你这个故事的结局
and you know the outcome.

你们也能猜出来
He found it and it was the excavation

他找到了迈锡尼城并且这次的挖掘之后
of the site of Mycenae which was soon followed by

又引发了一轮对于
the excavation of other sites from the same period

同时期其他遗迹的挖掘活动
that made it possible for people to talk about this culture,

而这也让人们在破解他们的文字之前
even before they could read the script.

有了探索此文明的可能性
The culture is marked by some of the following features.

此文明有以下几个特征
Let's take Mycenae,

我们以迈锡尼城为例
which is maybe the best example of the whole culture.

这也许是此文明最好的例子
Certainly, it's a perfect model for what we're talking about.

当然它也是我们谈论最好的模本