The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code

from Widsith

When, in 1900, Arthur Evans dug up a load of clay tablets stashed in a bathtub under a field in Crete, there didn't seem much hope that the writing on them would ever be understood. The people who wrote it had been ancient history by Homer's time, and the characters on the tablets looked nothing ...

from puttocklibrary

A fascinating history of how the ancient language Linear B was deciphered, and the previously little known history of the woman, Alice Kober, who provided the key to deciphering it. This book was very well written, and while definitely not someone who can crack even simple myself, the logic of ho...

from mamzel

I found this book quite interesting but I admit that few people probably would be as interested in the topic of deciphering a lost language. Tablets were found in Crete featuring a previously unknown language. There were no indications of whether it was phonetic or hieroglyphic based. The discove...

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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code is an appealing non-fiction account of the deciphering of the script Linear B and in particular the woman who was vital to its solution. In 1900 archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans uncovered a catch of fired clay tablets in Crete, the ear...

from emanate28

A fascinating account of how an ancient script was cracked, to a large part thanks to the plodding, incredibly labor-intensive, and unacknowledged work of one woman, Alice Kober. I had never even imagined that there would be a way to crack an unknown script of an unknown language; yet she quietly...