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The discovery and deciphering of Europe's earliest known written language is recounted with “almost nail-biting suspense” in this prize-winning account (Booklist, starred review). In 1900, famed archaeologist Arthur Evans uncovered the ruins of Knossos, a sophisticated Bronze Age civilization that flowered on Crete 1,000 years before Greece's Classical Age. The massive discovery included a cache of ancient tablets, Europe's earliest written records. For half a century, the meaning of the inscriptions, and even the language in which they were written, would remain an enigma. Award–winning New York Times journalist Margalit Fox follows this intellectual mystery from the Bronze Age Aegean to a legendary archeological dig at the turn of the twentieth century, and on to the brilliant decipherers who finally cracked the code in the 1950s. These include Michael Ventris, the amateur linguist who deciphered the script but met with a sudden, mysterious death that may have been a direct consequence of his findings; and Alice Kober, the unsung heroine of the story whose painstaking work allowed Ventris to crack the code.Winner of the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing

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Author

Margalit Fox

Publisher

Ecco, An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780062228888

Category

history

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Memoir, Language Learning

Rating

3.9 / 5 (35 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14