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
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
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
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…provide a key to decipherment. Although this proved incorrect, it was a link he continued to explore until the early 1950s. Shortly after Evans died, Alice Kober noted that certain words in Linear B inscriptions had changing word endings – perhaps declensions in the manner of Latin or Greek. Using this basis…
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.