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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
2013·363 pages
The story of deciphering Europe's oldest script, Linear B, through the lives of archaeologist Arthur Evans, scholar Alice Kober, and cryptographer Michael Ventris.
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The story of deciphering Europe's oldest script, Linear B, through the lives of archaeologist Arthur Evans, scholar Alice Kober, and cryptographer Michael Ventris.
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In the tradition of Simon Winchester and Dava Sobel, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code tells one of the most intriguing stories in the history of language, masterfully blending history, linguistics, and cryptology with an elegantly wrought narrative. When famed archaeologist Arthur Evans unearthed the ruins of a sophisticated Bronze Age civilization that flowered on Crete 1,000 years before Greece's Classical Age, he discovered a cache of ancient tablets, Europe's...
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Passing references to Greek mythology and Minoan Crete
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Mild themes of women overlooked in academic history
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