The Decipherment of Linear B by John Chadwick

The Decipherment of Linear B

John Chadwick

164 pages first pub 1958 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced

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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 archaeology in modern times. This celebrated account of the decipherment of Linear...

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