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...