The riddle of the labyrinth

The riddle of the labyrinth: the quest to crack an ancient code

by Fox, Margalit

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An intellectual detective story follows the quest to unlock one of the great secrets of human history--the decipherment of Linear B, an unknown script from the Aegean Bronze Age.

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  • Full title :The riddle of the labyrinth : the quest to crack an ancient code / Margalit Fox.

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An intellectual detective story follows the quest to unlock one of the great secrets of human history--the decipherment of Linear B, an unknown script from the Aegean Bronze Age.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2013.
  • Edition:First edition

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Ecco Press
  • Place of Publication:New York
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©2013.

The Physical Object

  • Description:xx, 363 pages : : illustrations, map ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0062228838, 9780062228833
  • oclc:ocn862106506
  • LC Classification:P1038
  • Dewey Decimal:487/.1

Table of Contents

Buried treasure -- The digger. The record-keepers ; The vanished key ; Love among the ruins -- The detective. American champollion ; A delightful problem ; Splitting the baby ; The matrix ; "Hurry up and deciper the thing!" -- The architect. The hollow boy ; A leap of faith ; "I know it, I know it" ; Solution, dissolution -- Mr. X and Mr. Y.

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Subjects

Archaeologists Archaeologists -- Biography. -- Great B… Archaeologists -- Biography. -- Greece Archéologues -- Biographies. -- Grande-… Archéologues -- Biographies. -- Grèce Biographies Civilisation mycénienne Civilization, Mycenaean Evans, Arthur,, Sir Femmes linguistes -- Biographies Great Britain Greece Inscriptions, Linear B Kober, Alice Nonfiction Ventris, Michael Women linguists Women linguists -- Biography

Writers

Fox, Margalit

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