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Author Chadwick, John, 1920-1998.

Title The decipherment of linear B / by John Chadwick
Edition Canto ed
Published Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 164 pages)
Summary The languages of the ancient world and the mysterious scripts, long undeciphered, in which they were encoded have represented one of the most intriguing problems of classical archaeology in modern times. This celebrated account of the decipherment of Linear B in the 1950s by Michael Ventris was written by his close collaborator in the momentous discovery. In revealing the secrets of Linear B it offers a valuable survey of late Minoan and Myceanean archaeology, uncovering fascinating details of the religion and economic history of an ancient civilisation
Notes Includes index
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Subject Ventris, Michael
SUBJECT Ventris, Michael fast
Subject Inscriptions, Linear B.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Greek (Modern)
Inscriptions, Linear B
Linear B
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Form Electronic book
ISBN 0511001088
9780511001086
9781107590090
1107590094