These include Michael Ventris, the brilliant amateur who deciphered the script but met with a sudden, mysterious death that may have been a direct consequence of the deipherment and Alice Kober, the unsung heroine of the story whose painstaking work allowed Ventris to crack the code. A RAVE REVIEW FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES: ‘The Riddle of the Labyrinth,’ by Margalit Fox By MATTI FRIEDMAN Published: The events of the past grow more alien as our distance from them increases, receding until they become, finally, unknowable. For half a century, the meaning of the inscriptions, and even the language in which they were written, would remain a mystery.Īward-winning New York Times journalist Margalit Fox's riveting real-life intellectual detective story travels from the Bronze Age Aegean - the era of Odysseus, Agamemnon, and Helen - to the turn of the 20th century and the work of charismatic English archeologist Arthur Evans, to the colorful personal stories of the decipherers. In the tradition of Simon Winchester and Dava Sobel, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code tells one of. Books by Margalit Fox Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code and the Uncovering of a Lost Civilisation 9781781251331 Profile Books. When famed archaeologist Arthur Evans unearthed the ruins of a sophisticated Bronze Age civilization that flowered on Crete 1,000 years before Greece's Classical Age, he discovered a cache of ancient tablets, Europe's earliest written records. THE RIDDLE OF THE LABYRINTH Peter Hancock Chapter First Online: 349 Accesses Abstract I realize that in what I have written so far, there is a danger of seeing the ‘transports’ I’ve described as essentially passive experiences. In the tradition of Simon Winchester and Dava Sobel, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code tells one of the most intriguing stories in the history of language, masterfully blending history, linguistics, and cryptology with an elegantly wrought narrative.

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