Linear A is a non-deciphered script, found on Crete, in the islands of the Aegean Sea and, sporadically, on the Greek Mainland and the western coast …

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Evans had discovered in Crete three kinds of writing of the Bronze Age (2nd Millennium B.C.). These are in order of development: (i) the Minoan Pictographic (Hieroglyphic), (ii) the Minoan Linear A, a simplified form of the Pictographic script, written cursively, in which the pictures had become signs formed of lines (Latin: linea, ...

Cretan hieroglyphs are a hieroglyphic writing system used in early Bronze Age Crete, during the Minoan era. They predate Linear A by about a century, but the two writing systems continued to be used in parallel for most of their history. As of 2022, they are undeciphered.

01/04/2020 · The earliest inscriptions of Linear A come from Phaistos, in a layer dated at the end of the Middle Minoan II period: that is, no later than c. 1700 BCE. Linear A texts have been found throughout the island of Crete and also on some Aegean islands (Kythera, Kea, Thera, Melos), in mainland Greece (Ayos Stephanos), on the west coast of Asia Minor (Miletos, Troy), and in the …

Linear B is a script documented on Crete and on the Greek Mainland from the 14 th to the 13 th century BC and used to write an archaic form of Greek. The oldest group of texts, found at Knossos in the so-called “Room of Chariot Tablets”, can be dated from the beginning of the 14 th century BC (or from the end of the 15 th century BC).