Odysseus's Return From the Trojan War Dated

srothroc writes "Scientists have used astronomical data from the Odyssey to attempt to pinpoint the time of Odysseus's return from his eponymous journey after the Trojan War. From the article: 'The scientists then searched for potential dates that satisfied all these astronomical references close to the fall of Troy, which has over the centuries been estimated to have occurred between roughly 1250 to 1115 B.C. From these 135 years, they found just one date that satisfied all the references — April 16, 1178 B.C., the same date as the proposed eclipse.""

Comments

Totally undecided:

[Fluffeh]

Part of me wants to make a snide comment about the usefulness of this, part of me thinks that it is pretty cool that they could find this sort of stuff out and "discover" it so long after it had been written and the times and dates were erased into history.

Overall, I guess it's quite cool - even if it doesn't have a direct impact on my life.