In The Riddle of the Labyrinth, linguist and obituary writer Margalit Fox chronicles three key figures in the decipherment of Linear B, an ancient Mycenaean script. Did the obsessive work ethic of the ...
Margalit Fox's fantastic The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code is where puzzle solving, detectives, and history meet. Fox, a linguist and senior writer for the New York Times ...
The decipherment of Linear B in 1952 by Michael Ventris is one of the great intellectual achievements of the 20th century, for Ventris cracked this Late Bronze Age code without the Aegean equivalent ...
Linear B is an ancient European Bronze Age script, dating back 3,500 years. When a British architect finally cracked it in the 1950s, he was hailed as a genius - but he may never have succeeded had it ...
It was one of the most captivating mysteries of the modern age, requiring three detectives and 52 years to solve. Along the way, there was magnificent obsession, bitter disappointment, world-shaking ...
For more than 50 years, a mysterious ancient script called Linear B was seen as one of the greatest linguistic riddles. Clay tablets with the script were discovered at the palace at Knossos in Crete ...
Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Jill Kitson: Welcome to Lingua Franca on ABC Radio National. This week: The mystery of Linear B, the ...
For more than 50 years, a mysterious ancient script called Linear B was seen as one of the greatest linguistic riddles. Clay tablets with the script were discovered at the palace at Knossos in Crete ...
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