The decipherment of Linear B finally let the Mycenaeans speak for themselves, and the greatest key was the vast palace archive at Pylos, the legendary realm of Nestor. From the Palace of Nestor to the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Rosetta Stone is the most famous of ancient inscriptions; it unlocked the meaning of thousands of Egyptian hieroglyphic inscriptions. The undeciphered Phaistos Disc, discovered by an Italian ...

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