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Linear A has roughly 90 symbols, thus most likely a syllabary much like Linear B. However, Linear A has resisted all attempts at decipherment because its underlying language is still unknown and probably will remain obscure since it doesn't seem to relate to any other surviving language in Europe or Western Asia.
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www.ancientscripts.com/lineara.html
www.ancientscripts.com/lineara.html
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Linear B - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Linear B is a script that was used for writing Mycenaean Greek, an early form of Greek. It predated the Greek alphabet by several centuries (ca. 13th but perhaps as early as late 15th century BC) and...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_B
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Linear B logograms ... Evans figured out that short lines in Linear B texts were word dividers. He also deciphered the counting system and a number of pictograms, which led him to believe that the script was mainly pictographic. ... Micheal Ventris (1922-56) was the person who eventually deciphered Linear B in 1953.
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www.omniglot.com/writing/linearb.htm
www.omniglot.com/writing/linearb.htm
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For a long time the Linear B script did not disclose its secret to those who worked on its solution. Nor was the decipherment facilitated by the manner in which Sir Arthur Evans published the texts of the Linear B tablets—not all at once, but seriatim.
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www.varchive.org/dag/decipher.htm
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Linear B, the earliest known script for writing ancient Greek, was a syllabary rather than an alphabet. Read about it here. ... The script called Linear B is a syllabary, not an alphabet. That is, each symbol represents a unique syllable, not an individual sound. Linear B is more than a syllabary, though.
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www.greek-language.com/historyofgreek/linear_b.html
www.greek-language.com/historyofgreek/linear_b.html
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Lesson 25: The Linear B Tablets and Mycenaean Social, Political, and Economic Organization ... The Nature and Use of the Linear B Script ... Linear B, in the form of sign groups which form words as opposed to isolated signs with a variety of possible significances, occurs in only two forms of text.
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projectsx.dartmouth.edu/history/bronze_age/lessons/les/...
projectsx.dartmouth.edu/history/bronze_age/lessons/les/25.html
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Documentary about Michael Ventris, the man who cracked the Linear B code ... On 1 July 1952, a 30-year-old architect called Michael Ventris made a BBC radio broadcast which was to secure his place in archaeological and history books forever. He announced that he'd deciphered Linear B, Europe's earliest known,
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www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/linear-b.s...
www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/linear-b.shtml
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Linear AB 00001.png; 931 bytes; ... This page was last modified on 29 November 2007, at 09:42. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License; additional terms may apply. See Terms of Use for details. Privacy policy About Wikimedia Commons Disclaimers...
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AncientScripts - Linear B - Clear .gif images of some basic characters. ... John Chadwick (1920-98) - Obituary reproduced from The Guardian of the classical scholar who, together with Michael Ventris, deciphered Linear B, the writing used by the Mycenaeans.
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www.dmoz.org/Science/Social_Sciences/Linguistics/Graphe...
www.dmoz.org/Science/Social_Sciences/Linguistics/Graphemics_and_Orthography/Linear_B/
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