Cracking the knossos code

The Spectator | May 25, 2002| | Copyright

Cracking the Knossos code Sara Paton THE MAN WHO DECIPHERED LINEAR B: THE STORY OF MICHAEL VENTRIS by Andrew Robinson Thames & Hudson, L12.95, pp. 168, ISBN 0500510776

'He died, like all geniuses, at the age of 34' - the unforgettable growl of the late Sir Mortimer Wheeler. The genius was Michael Ventris. He really was a genius. He was an architect who was born in 1922 and killed in a car crash in 1956, and during the course of this short life he achieved, more or less as a sideline, a task which seemed impossible. Largely through internal evidence, without the aid of any bilingual text, ...

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