The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris write by Andrew Robinson. This book was released on 2012-04-01. The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Highly readable . . . a fitting tribute to the quiet outsider who taught the professionals their business and increased our knowledge of the human past.”—Archaeology Odyssey More than a century ago, in 1900, one of the great archaeological finds of all time was made in Crete. Arthur Evans discovered what he believed was the palace of King Minos, with its notorious labyrinth, home of the Minotaur. As a result, Evans became obsessed with one of the epic intellectual stories of the modern era: the search for the meaning of Linear B, the mysterious script found on clay tablets in the ruined palace. Evans died without achieving his objective, and it was left to the enigmatic Michael Ventris to crack the code in 1952. This is the first book to tell not just the story of Linear B but also that of the young man who deciphered it. Based on hundreds of unpublished letters, interviews with survivors, and other primary sources, Andrew Robinson’s riveting account takes the reader through the life of this intriguing and contradictory man. Stage by stage, we see how Ventris finally achieved the breakthrough that revealed Linear B as the earliest comprehensible European writing system.
The Decipherment of Linear B
The Decipherment of Linear B - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Decipherment of Linear B write by John Chadwick. This book was released on 1990-09-13. The Decipherment of Linear B available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. This celebrated account of the decipherment of Linear B in the 1950s by Michael Ventris was written by his close collaborator in the momentous discovery. 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.
The Riddle of the Labyrinth
The Riddle of the Labyrinth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Riddle of the Labyrinth write by Margalit Fox. This book was released on 2013-05-14. The Riddle of the Labyrinth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the tradition of Simon Winchester and Dava Sobel, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code tells one of the most intriguing stories in the history of language, masterfully blending history, linguistics, and cryptology with an elegantly wrought narrative. When famed archaeologist Arthur Evans unearthed the ruins of a sophisticated Bronze Age civilization that flowered on Crete 1,000 years before Greece’s Classical Age, he discovered a cache of ancient tablets, Europe’s earliest written records. For half a century, the meaning of the inscriptions, and even the language in which they were written, would remain a mystery. Award-winning New York Times journalist Margalit Fox's riveting real-life intellectual detective story travels from the Bronze Age Aegean—the era of Odysseus, Agamemnon, and Helen—to the turn of the 20th century and the work of charismatic English archeologist Arthur Evans, to the colorful personal stories of the decipherers. These include Michael Ventris, the brilliant amateur who deciphered the script but met with a sudden, mysterious death that may have been a direct consequence of the deipherment; and Alice Kober, the unsung heroine of the story whose painstaking work allowed Ventris to crack the code.
The Last Man who Knew Everything
The Last Man who Knew Everything - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Last Man who Knew Everything write by Andrew Robinson. This book was released on 2023. The Last Man who Knew Everything available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Lost Languages
Lost Languages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lost Languages write by Andrew Robinson. This book was released on 2009. Lost Languages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Undeciphered scripts have long tantalized the public, whether it's the possibility of hearing the voices of ancient peoples or the puzzle solver's taste for the challenges posed by breaking codes. Here, Andrew Robinson investigates the most famous examples, beginning with the stories of three great decipherments: Egyptian hieroglyphs, Maya glyphs, and the Minoan Linear B clay tablets. He then covers the important scripts that have yet to be cracked, such as the Etruscan alphabet and Rongorongo from Easter Island.
