An ancient city, where myths and heroes were born, such as Hercules, Oedipus, and other renowned historical characters, such as the poet Pindar and general Epaminondas. The daughter of the Asopos River, Thebes, is the one who gave its name to one of the three largest city-states of ancient Greece. In addition, the fortified hill of Cadmea led Thebes to its great progress and power over time. Thebes, a great administrative center since the Mycenaean Period, had guarded its treasures, including the first Greek record of life on Linear B script clay tablets, for millenniums within its geographical confines. Furthermore, throughout antiquity, Thebes gained a reputation for being a central city in Boeotian history and one of the largest centers of the Ancient and Byzantine world, as we are informed by historians; a fact proved by the vast findings of its excavations.