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The Decipherment of Linear B (Canto) - Softcover

Book 1 of 14: Canto

Chadwick, John

 
9780521398305: The Decipherment of Linear B (Canto)

Synopsis

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.

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Review

'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 scripts. It 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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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.

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9780521095969: The Decipherment of Linear B

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ISBN 10:  0521095964 ISBN 13:  9780521095969
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1970
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