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How One Woman Nearly Deciphered A Mysterious Script

Margalit Fox is a senior obituary writer at The New York Times. Critics have called Margalit Fox's new book, The Riddle of the Labyrinth, a paleographic detective procedural. It follows the story of ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The mystery of Linear B, the script that pre-dated alphabetic writing in Greece

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Jill Kitson: Welcome to Lingua Franca on ABC Radio National. This week: The mystery of Linear B, the ...
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Clay Tablet Inscribed with Linear B Script of the Mycenaen Civilization (IMAGE)

Clay tablet, dated to 1450-1375 BC, inscribed with Linear B script. The Linear B script of the Mycenaen civilization (c. 1600 to 1100 BC) represented an early form of Greek. It was descended from the ...
The New York Times

Scholar Who Solved Old Script Sees Greek-Semitic Cultural Tie; Dr. Cyrus Gordon of Brandeis University, After Research in Crete, Says 2 Great Civilizations Had Common Base

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BBC

Alice Kober: Unsung heroine who helped decode Linear B

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Northcountrypublicradio.org

How One Woman Nearly Deciphered A Mysterious Script

For decades, no one could crack the code to a mysterious ancient script called Linear B. In her new book, Margalit Fox tells the story of the... How One Woman Nearly Deciphered A Mysterious Script ...