Alice Kober
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Alice Elizabeth Kober was an American classicist best known for her work on the decipherment of Linear B. Educated at Hunter College and Columbia University, Kober taught classics at Brooklyn College
Kober in 1946
The library at Brooklyn College, where Kober taught from 1930 until her death
Linear B tablet found at Pylos. Kober dedicated her life to the decipherment of the script.
Michael Ventris
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Michael George Francis Ventris was an English architect, classicist and philologist who deciphered Linear B, the ancient Mycenaean Greek script. A student of languages, Ventris had pursued deciphermen
Alice Kober
…ultimately achieved, surely her careful and faithful spade-work will be found to have played a part therein". This prediction would prove true: after Michael Ventris' decipherment of the script, his collaborator John Chadwick recognised her for laying the foundation, and described her contributions to the study of…
Michael Ventris obituary photo
Stowe School in August 2005
Halifax bomber in flight, 1942
Ventris's home, 1952–1956, which he and his wife, Lois, also an architect, designed