| Edition |
First Ecco paperback edition. |
| Description |
xx, 363 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-296) and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue : buried treasure -- The digger. The record-keepers -- The vanished key -- Love among the ruins -- The detective. American champollion -- A delightful problem -- Splitting the baby -- The matrix -- "Hurry up and decipher the thing!" -- The architect. The hollow boy -- A leap of faith -- "I know it, I know it" -- Solution, dissolution -- Epilogue : Mr. X and Mr. Y -- Appendix : the signs of Linear B. |
| Summary |
An intellectual detective story follows the quest to unlock one of the great secrets of human history--the decipherment of Linear B, an unknown script from the Aegean Bronze Age. |
| Subject |
Kober, Alice, 1906-1950.
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Evans, Arthur, Sir, 1851-1941.
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Ventris, Michael.
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Inscriptions, Linear B.
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Inscriptions, Linear B -- Greece -- Knossos (Extinct city)
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Civilization, Mycenaean.
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Women linguists -- Biography.
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Archaeologists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Archaeologists -- Greece -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
9780062228864 (paperback) |
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0062228862 (paperback) |
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