Riddle of the Labyrinth - The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code and the Uncovering of a Lost Civilisation (Paperback)

The decoding of Linear B is one of the world's greatest stories: from the discovery of a cache of ancient tablets recording a lost prehistoric language to the dramatic solution of the riddle nearly seventy years later, it exerts a mesmerizing pull on the imagination. But, captivating as it is, this story is missing a crucial piece. Two men have dominated Linear B in popular history: Arthur Evans, the intrepid Victorian archaeologist who unearthed Linear B at Knossos and Michael Ventris, the dashing young amateur who produced a solution. But there was a third figure: Alice Kober, without whose painstaking work, recorded on pieces of paper clipped from hymn-sheets and magazines and stored in cigarette boxes in her Brooklyn loft, Linear B might still remain a mystery. Drawing on Kober's own papers - only made available recently - Margalit Fox provides the final piece of the enigma, and along the way reveals how you decipher a language when you know neither its grammar nor its alphabet as well as the stories behind other ancient languages, like the dancing-man Rongorongo of Easter Island.

General

Imprint:	Profile Books Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2013
Authors:	Margalit Fox
Dimensions:	232 x 152 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	363
ISBN-13:	978-1-78125-132-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > General Books > Humanities > History > European history > BCE to 500 CE Books > History > European history > BCE to 500 CE Promotions
LSN:	1-78125-132-0
Barcode:	9781781251324

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