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
Mycenaean Greek
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Mycenaean Greek is the earliest attested form of the Greek language. It was spoken on the Greek mainland and Crete in Mycenaean Greece. The language is preserved in inscriptions in Linear B, a script
Michael Ventris
…George Francis Ventris (; 12 July 1922 – 6 September 1956) was an English architect, classicist and philologist who deciphered Linear B, the ancient Mycenaean Greek script. A student of languages, Ventris had pursued decipherment as a personal vocation since his adolescence. After creating a new field of study…
Warrior wearing a boar's tusk helmet, from a Mycenaean chamber tomb in the Acropolis of Athens, 14th–13th century BC.
Mycenaean Greek inscription written in Linear B, Archaeological Museum of Mycenae