Fox, Margalit <br/><br/>
Riddle of the labyrinth :  the deciphering of Linear B and the discovery of a lost civilisation / 
Margalit Fox. 
 - London :  Profile,  2013. 
 - 363 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> In 1900 Sir Arthur Evans, the charismatic Victorian archaeologist, excavating the labyrinthine ruins of the ancient palace at Knossos came upon over 1,000 tablets covered in script. He knew he had found the records of the palace - if only he could decipher them. Margalit Fox shows how he and thousands of experts failed to do so, but that by the middle of the twentieth century progress had been made by two people working largely independently. Alice Kober was a withdrawn teacher who did painstaking research in her Brooklyn loft and kept her records on scraps of hymn-sheets filed in cigarette boxes. Michael Ventris was a dashing but imperfect architect and a languages prodigy. Their work led finally to the disentanglement of Linear B and opened a new window on the ancient world. Just how is a mesmerising archaeological detective story, brilliantly told in all its triumphant detail. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781781251324 (pbk.)  9781847659705 (ebook)  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Kober, Alice<br/>Evans, Arthur Sir  1851-1941 <br/>Ventris, Michael
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Inscriptions, Linear B--Greece--Knossos (Extinct city)
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Knossos (Extinct city)--Antiquities
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>487.1