Starting with the Troy and Heinrich Schliemann's excavations, the reader is told of accounts of excavations of major centers of the Hellenic world, including the story of Michael Ventris' decipherment of Linear B.
Linear B, a script used in the ancient Aegean, was deciphered in 1952 by Michael Ventris, who demonstrated that it recorded an early form of Greek, now known as Mycenaean Greek.
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John Chadwick (21 May 1920 – 24 November 1998) was an English linguist and classical scholar who, with Alice Kober and Michael Ventris, was most notable for the decipherment of Linear B.