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  2. Linear B - Wikipedia

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    Linear B was deciphered in 1952 by English architect and self-taught linguist Michael Ventris [6] based on the research of American classicist Alice Kober. [7] It is the only Bronze Age Aegean script to have been deciphered, with Linear A, Cypro-Minoan , and Cretan hieroglyphic remaining unreadable.

  3. Michael Ventris - Wikipedia

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    Michael George Francis Ventris, OBE (/ ˈ v ɛ n t r ɪ s /; 12 July 1922 – 6 September 1956) was an English architect, classicist and philologist who deciphered Linear B, [1] the ancient Mycenaean Greek script. A student of languages, Ventris had pursued decipherment as a personal vocation since his adolescence.

  4. PY Ta 641 - Wikipedia

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    On 18 June, he wrote a letter to Emmett L. Bennett Jr., including the line "I think I've deciphered Linear B". [49] In this letter, Ventris restated his conviction that the language of Linear B was Greek, and gave an account of some of its spelling rules and of certain transliterations between Classical Greek and Linear B. [ 49 ] On 1 July, he ...

  5. Linear A - Wikipedia

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    Linear A belongs to a group of scripts that evolved independently of the Egyptian and Mesopotamian systems. During the second millennium BC, there were four major branches: Linear A, Linear B, Cypro-Minoan, and Cretan hieroglyphic. [4] In the 1950s, Linear B was deciphered and found to have an underlying language of Mycenaean Greek. Linear A ...

  6. Category:Linear B - Wikipedia

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    It is adapted from the earlier Linear A, an undeciphered script potentially used for writing the Minoan language, as is the later Cypriot syllabary, which also recorded Greek. Linear B, found mainly in the palace archives at Knossos , Kydonia , Pylos , Thebes and Mycenae , disappeared with the fall of Mycenaean civilization during the Late ...

  7. Decipherment - Wikipedia

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    Type I: unknown writing and known language. Deciphered languages in this category include Phoenician, Ugaritic, Cypriot, and Linear B. In this situation, alphabetic systems are the easiest to decipher, followed by syllabic languages, and finally the most difficult being logo-syllabic. Type II: known writing and unknown language. An example is ...

  8. American Journal of Archaeology - Wikipedia

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    The journal's current editor-in-chief is Jane B. Carter. [5] The journal's first woman editor-in-chief was Mary Hamilton Swindler. [6] From 1940 to 1950 the journal published articles by Michael Ventris, Alice Kober and Emmett Bennett, which contributed to the decipherment of the ancient Linear B script. [7]

  9. Cypro-Minoan syllabary - Wikipedia

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    Currently, the total number of Cypro-Minoan signs (approx. 4,000) in the corpus compares unfavorably with the number known from the undeciphered Linear A signs (over 7,000) and the number available in Linear B when it was deciphered (approx. 30,000). It is also unclear how many syllabograms are represented in the corpus.