Margalit Fox

Riddle of the Labyrinth (eBook, ePUB)

The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code and the Uncovering of a Lost Civilisation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The decoding of Linear B is one of the world's greatest stories: from the discovery of a cache of ancient tablets recording a lost prehistoric language to the dramatic solution of the riddle nearly seventy years later, it exerts a mesmerising pull on the imagination.

But this captivating story is missing a crucial piece. Two men have dominated Linear B in popular history: Arthur Evans, the intrepid Victorian archaeologist who unearthed Linear B at Knossos and Michael Ventris, the dashing young amateur who produced a solution. But there was a third figure: Alice Kober, without whose painstaking work, recorded on pieces of paper clipped from hymn-sheets and magazines and stored in cigarette boxes in her Brooklyn loft, Linear B might still remain a mystery. Drawing on Kober's own papers - only made available recently - Margalit Fox provides the final piece of the enigma, and along the way reveals how you decipher a language when you know neither its grammar nor its alphabet as well as the stories behind other ancient languages, like the dancing-man Rongorongo of Easter Island.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Profile
• Seitenzahl: 273
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847659705
• Artikelnr.: 39085674

Autorenporträt

Margalit Fox

Rezensionen

An engrossing detective story of driven personalities, hidden clues, perseverance and intuition [Fox] has uncovered a remarkable woman who had been buried by history Sunday Times