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For the first time, the full story of the race to decipher the world's greatest puzzle. The decoding of Linear B is one of the world's greatest stories: from the discovery of a cache of ancient tablets recording a lost prehistoric language to the dramatic solution of the riddle nearly seventy years later, it exerts a mesmerizing pull on the imagination.But, captivating as it is, this story is missing a crucial piece. Two men have dominated Linear B in popular history: Arthur Evans, the intrepid Victorian archaeologist who unearthed Linear B at Knossos and Michael Ventris, the dashing young amateur who produced a solution. But there was a third figure: Alice Kober, without whose painstaking work, recorded on pieces of paper clipped from hymn-sheets and magazines and stored in cigarette boxes in her Brooklyn loft, Linear B might still remain a mystery. Drawing on Kober's own papers - only made available recently - Margalit Fox provides the final piece of the enigma, and along the way reveals how you decipher a language when you know neither its grammar nor its alphabet as well as the stories behind other ancient languages, like the dancing-man Rongorongo of Easter Island.
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth, Margalit Fox
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2013
- Einband
- (Paperback),
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- Titel
- The Riddle of the Labyrinth
- Untertitel
- The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Margalit Fox
- Verlag
- Profile Books
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2013
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 352
- ISBN10
- 1781251320
- ISBN13
- 9781781251324
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Wissenschaft, Linguistik, Altertum, Archäologie, Griechenland
- Beschreibung
- For the first time, the full story of the race to decipher the world's greatest puzzle. The decoding of Linear B is one of the world's greatest stories: from the discovery of a cache of ancient tablets recording a lost prehistoric language to the dramatic solution of the riddle nearly seventy years later, it exerts a mesmerizing pull on the imagination.But, captivating as it is, this story is missing a crucial piece. Two men have dominated Linear B in popular history: Arthur Evans, the intrepid Victorian archaeologist who unearthed Linear B at Knossos and Michael Ventris, the dashing young amateur who produced a solution. But there was a third figure: Alice Kober, without whose painstaking work, recorded on pieces of paper clipped from hymn-sheets and magazines and stored in cigarette boxes in her Brooklyn loft, Linear B might still remain a mystery. Drawing on Kober's own papers - only made available recently - Margalit Fox provides the final piece of the enigma, and along the way reveals how you decipher a language when you know neither its grammar nor its alphabet as well as the stories behind other ancient languages, like the dancing-man Rongorongo of Easter Island.