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The Riddle Of The Labyrinth
Margalit Fox
The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
Ecco
May 2013
On Sale: May 14, 2013
400 pages ISBN: 0062228838 EAN: 9780062228833 Kindle: B009NQZPCU Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
In the tradition of Simon Winchester and Dava Sobel, The
Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient
Code tells one of the most intriguing stories in the
history of language, masterfully blending history,
linguistics, and cryptology with an elegantly wrought
narrative. When famed archaeologist Arthur
Evans unearthed the ruins of a sophisticated Bronze Age
civilization that flowered on Crete 1,000 years before
Greece’s Classical Age, he discovered a cache of ancient
tablets, Europe’s earliest written records. For half a
century, the meaning of the inscriptions, and even the
language in which they were written, would remain a
mystery.
Award-winning New York Times journalist
Margalit Fox's riveting real-life intellectual detective
story travels from the Bronze Age Aegean—the era of
Odysseus, Agamemnon, and Helen—to the turn of the 20th
century and the work of charismatic English archeologist
Arthur Evans, to the colorful personal stories of the
decipherers. These include Michael Ventris, the brilliant
amateur who deciphered the script but met with a sudden,
mysterious death that may have been a direct consequence of
the deipherment; and Alice Kober, the unsung heroine of the
story whose painstaking work allowed Ventris to crack the code.
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