12/07/2021 · On July 12, 1922, English architect and linguist Michael Ventris was born. Along with John Chadwick and Alice Kober, Ventris deciphered Linear B, a previously unknown ancient script discovered at Knossos by Arthur Evans.He showed that the Minoan Linear B script was a very early form of Greek, the oldest known examples.. Michael Ventris – Learning a Language in …

06/06/2013 · Linear B decoder Michael Ventris on BBC in 1952. For more than 50 years, a mysterious ancient script called Linear B was seen as one of the greatest linguistic riddles. Clay tablets with the ...

30/10/2021 · After her death, Michael Ventris, an architect and amateur linguist, built upon Kober’s work, and eventually went on to decipher Linear B. Ventris, working on a hunch, was the first scholar to determine that the script was Mycenaean Greek. Born into a military family in 1922, Ventris spent much of his youth studying languages and was ...

Ventris's remarkable achievement proved that Linear B is an early form of Greek (Mycenaean Greek) used from about 1450 to 1200 BCE. During the Bronze Age Collapse , from circa 1200-1150 BCE Linear B, found mainly in the palace archives at Knossos , Cydonia , Pylos , Thebes and Mycenae , disappeared with the fall of Mycenaean civilization.

05/06/2013 · In 1952, a young British architect, Michael Ventris, did discover the meaning of Linear B. Image caption, Frescos at the palace of Knossos in Crete where the …

13/10/2012 · Cracking the code: the decipherment of Linear B 60 years on. A conference in Cambridge this weekend will mark the 60th anniversary of the decipherment by Michael Ventris of Linear B, a script used for an early form of ancient Greek. His stunning achievement pushed back the frontiers of knowledge about the ancient world.

The languages of the ancient world and the mysterious scripts, long undeciphered, in which they were encoded have represented one of the most intriguing problems of classical archaeology in modern times. This celebrated account of the decipherment of Linear B in the 1950s by Michael Ventris was written by his close collaborator in the momentous ...

Just a few months before she died, Alice Kober received a letter from Michael Ventris, an English architect who had been fascinated by Linear B ever since he was a child. Ventris was born on July 12, 1922, the son of an English Army officer and his half-Polish wife.