The Decipherment of Linear B

The Decipherment of Linear B by John Chadwick

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.

'In this present short book - lucid, concise and admirable - Chadwick tells us something of Ventris and his mind, and of the problems involved in the decipherment of Minoan-Mycenaean scriptsIt is written for the layman and very well written. It is not only an account of a startling piece of philological and archaeological research, but a simple, moving human story.' The Spectator

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ISBN 13	9780521398305
ISBN 10	0521398304
Titel	The Decipherment of Linear B
Autor	John Chadwick
Serie	Canto
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	1990-09-13
Seitenanzahl	180
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