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12. Juli 2022 · Michael Ventris, an English architect and linguist, was born July 12, 1922. In 1900, the archaeologist Arthur Evans had discovered, at Knossos in Crete, a number of clay tablets written in 3 unknown scripts. The most tantalizing came to be known as Linear B. Evans tried for 40 years to decipher the script but was unable to do so.
18. Jan. 2024 · Michael Ventris at 14, reproduced in Andrew Robinson’s The Man Who Deciphered Linear B. The challenge was seductive. Over the next few years, he entered sporadic correspondence with Evans about the tablets, sometimes offering suggestions, sometimes apologising after changing his mind (“Actually I was only 15 at the time,” he wrote at 17, “and I am afraid that my theories were nonsense
24. Aug. 2016 · BBC Documentary transmitted 6th August 2004. A Very English Genius: How Michael Ventris Cracked Linear B. Includes an interview with Jean Overton Fuller. The...
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20. Sept. 2023 · Michael Ventris uses Alice Kober’s discoveries as inspiration. After her death, Michael Ventris, an architect and amateur linguist, built upon Kober’s work, and eventually went on to decipher Linear B. Ventris, working on a hunch, was the first scholar to determine that the script was Mycenaean Greek. Born into a military family in 1922, he ...
5. Juni 2013 · In 1952, a young British architect, Michael Ventris, did discover the meaning of Linear B. Image caption, Frescos at the palace of Knossos in Crete where the Linear B script was found
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Michael Ventris. Michael George Francis Ventris, (; 12 July 1922 – 6 September 1956) was an English architect, classicist and philologist who deciphered Linear B, the ancient Mycenaean Greek script. A student of languages, Ventris had pursued decipherment as a personal vocation since his adolescence. Read more on Wikipedia.
