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CRACKING THE CODE: THE DECIPHERMENT OF LINEAR B 60 YEARS ON
Article created on Monday, October 15, 2012
When during the early 20thcentury archaeologists excavated some of the most famous sites of Ancient Greece – notably Knossos on the island of Crete and Mycenae and Pylos on the mainland – they found large numbers of clay tablets inscribed with a type of script that baffled them.
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/10/2012/cracking-the-code-the-decipherment-of-linear-b-60-years-on
Article created on Monday, October 15, 2012
А conference in Cambridge, southeast England, will mark the 60th anniversary of the decipherment by Michael Ventris of Linear B, a script used for an early form of ancient Greek. His stunning achievement pushed back the frontiers of knowledge about the ancient world.
When during the early 20thcentury archaeologists excavated some of the most famous sites of Ancient Greece – notably Knossos on the island of Crete and Mycenae and Pylos on the mainland – they found large numbers of clay tablets inscribed with a type of script that baffled them.
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/10/2012/cracking-the-code-the-decipherment-of-linear-b-60-years-on