Scientists claim to find Homer's Ithaca

A British team using Australian technology believe they may have solved a mystery that has baffled scholars for more than 2,000 years - the whereabouts of Ithaca a rocky island described in Homer's Odyssey. The team led by management consultant and businessman Robert Bittlestone claimed it had found compelling evidence in support of the location of ancient Ithaca. In a new book: Odysseus Unbound - The Search for Homer's Ithaca, Bittlestone concludes that Ithaca was not the Greek island now called Ithaki, but was instead located on what is believed to have been the previously separated western peninsula of the island of Kefallinia, an area now called Paliki. Geospatial imaging software from Australian firm OziExplorer was integral to the discovery, Bittlestone said. The claim is being plugged as one of the most important classical discoveries since the unearthing of Troy in north-western Turkey in the 1870s.

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