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If you imagine you would like a book on this topic, I strongly suggest that you read this one. Interesting and well written.
What attracted me to this book is the quality of Margalit Fox's obituary writing.
Especially this one:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/us/...
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What attracted me to this book is the quality of Margalit Fox's obituary writing.
Especially this one:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/us/...
...more
This book offers an interesting three-part examination of the quest to solve the riddle of Linear B and be able to translate its characters.
The book focuses on three people, "The Digger", Arthur Evans, who discovered the tablets; "The Detective", Alice Kober, who worked tirelessly during her short adult life to decipher the language; and "The Architect", Michael Ventris, who is credited with cracking the code.
While the author seems most sympathetic to Alice Kober, I appreciated learning about a ...more
The book focuses on three people, "The Digger", Arthur Evans, who discovered the tablets; "The Detective", Alice Kober, who worked tirelessly during her short adult life to decipher the language; and "The Architect", Michael Ventris, who is credited with cracking the code.
While the author seems most sympathetic to Alice Kober, I appreciated learning about a ...more
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