The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris

The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris
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Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Total Pages : 195
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ISBN-10 : 9780500770771
ISBN-13 : 0500770778
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Book Synopsis The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris by : Andrew Robinson

Download or read book The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris written by Andrew Robinson and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Highly readable . . . a fitting tribute to the quiet outsider who taught the professionals their business and increased our knowledge of the human past.”—Archaeology Odyssey More than a century ago, in 1900, one of the great archaeological finds of all time was made in Crete. Arthur Evans discovered what he believed was the palace of King Minos, with its notorious labyrinth, home of the Minotaur. As a result, Evans became obsessed with one of the epic intellectual stories of the modern era: the search for the meaning of Linear B, the mysterious script found on clay tablets in the ruined palace. Evans died without achieving his objective, and it was left to the enigmatic Michael Ventris to crack the code in 1952. This is the first book to tell not just the story of Linear B but also that of the young man who deciphered it. Based on hundreds of unpublished letters, interviews with survivors, and other primary sources, Andrew Robinson’s riveting account takes the reader through the life of this intriguing and contradictory man. Stage by stage, we see how Ventris finally achieved the breakthrough that revealed Linear B as the earliest comprehensible European writing system.


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