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The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris
The Man Who Deciphered Linear B The Story of Michael Ventris
Author: Andrew Robinson
The decipherment of Linear B by Michael Ventris some fifty years ago is the equivalent in the humanities of Crick and Watson's discovery of the structure of DNA. Today it belongs in the same rare class as Champollion's decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs in the nineteenth century. The earliest European writing system that we can understand, Lin...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780500510773
ISBN-10: 0500510776
Publication Date: 6/2002
Pages: 168
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Publisher: Thames Hudson
Book Type: Hardcover
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