As Margalit Fox says at the outset of The Riddle of the Labyrinth, the story of Linear B is well known. This 3,000-year-old language was discovered on clay tablets excavated in 1900 on the island of ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Jill Kitson: Welcome to Lingua Franca on ABC Radio National. This week: The mystery of Linear B, the ...

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 script were discovered at the palace at Knossos in Crete ...

Linear B is an ancient European Bronze Age script, dating back 3,500 years. When a British architect finally cracked it in the 1950s, he was hailed as a genius - but he may never have succeeded had it ...

Class: Lecture and discussion on the historical context of the emergence of the Linear B script, by James Wright (professor emeritus, Bryn Mawr College, former director of the American School of ...