01/04/2020 · Linguists Successfully Decipher Ancient Minoan Language “Linear A”. In what might surely be viewed as one of the potentially great breakthroughs in linguistics in recent years, scientists have finally deciphered the ancient Minoan Language known as “ Linear A “, a previously untranslated ancient writing system used from 1800 to 1450 BCE.

04/09/2021 · The alphabet called Linear A was first discovered and named by British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans, who lived from 1851-1941. Linear A has never been dechipered. It was succeeded by Linear B, which was used by the Mycenaeans to write an early form of Greek. No complete texts in Linear A have ever been deciphered.

Linear A deciphered? It is now more than half a century since the world was thrilled to learn that Ventris and Chadwick had deciphered the Linear B Minoan script as an early form of Greek. No comparable success has been achieved in deciphering the older Linear A script, despite hopes that it might turn out to be either Luwian or a semitic language.

13/05/2021 · The Minoan language known as “Linear A” may finally be deciphered with the help of the internet, which can be used to uncover previously-hidden links to the much-better understood Linear B language, which developed later in the prehistoric period.

Linear B Deciphered. For a long time the Linear B script did not disclose its secret to those who worked on its solution. Nor was the decipherment facilitated by the manner in which Sir Arthur Evans published the texts of the Linear B tablets—not all at once, but seriatim.