Amazing book. I had little to no knowledge of the history of Linear B before reading this book, and the story was almost unbelievable. I lost the author from time to time when she went into the intricacies of deciphering an unknown language, but her accounts of the individuals who contributed to ...
I grabbed this book in kindle version.It was a great read, deploying the sensibility of a detective/mystery novel to explore the history of the deciphering of Linear B. It charts the involvement of three major figures in this task, and gives the reader a good basis in understanding who Evans, Kob...
In 1876, Heinrich Schliemann, a wealthy German businessman with a burning interest in the classics, began excavating a site on the Greek mainland, about seventy miles southwest of Athens. The site he chose was fabled as the home of Mycenae, the ancient city known from Homer as the kingdom of Agam...