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The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris - Softcover

Robinson, Andrew

 
9780500289983: The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0500289980 ISBN 13: 9780500289983
Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

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 Based on hundreds of unpublished letters, interviews with survivors, and other primary sources, Andrew Robinson’s riveting account takes the reader through the life of this intriguing and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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Andrew Robinson has written more than twenty-five books on the arts and sciences. They include Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts, India: A Short History, and Earthshock, which won the Association of Earth Science Editors Outstanding Publication Award. He is also a regular contributor to magazines, such as Current World Archaeology, History Today, The Lancet, Nature, and Science. A former literary editor of The Times Higher Education Supplement, he was also a visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge.

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Verlag
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0500289980
ISBN 13 
9780500289983
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
168
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