OL17573855W Page_number_confidence 91.84 Pages 394 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.14 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210616174457 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 301 Scandate 20210615004347 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780062228833 Tts_version 4. The decoding of Linear B is one of the worlds greatest stories: from the discovery. Margalit Fox The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code Kindle Edition by Margalit Fox (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 448 ratings 4.0 on Goodreads 3,250 ratings Goodreads Choice Award nominee See all formats and editions Kindle 12.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.
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 decipherment and Alice Kober, the unsung heroine of the story whose painstaking work allowed Ventris to crack the code.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 15:02:42 Boxid IA40137211 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Buy Riddle of the Labyrinth by Margalit Fox for 37.00 at Mighty Ape NZ. For half a century, the meaning of the inscriptions, and even the language in which they were written, would remain a mystery.Īward-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. 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. 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. Award-winning New York Times journalist Margalit Fox tells one of the most intriguing stories in the history of language, masterfully blending history, linguistics, and cryptology with an elegantly wrought narrative.
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