The riddle of the labyrinth : the quest to crack an ancient code /
Margalit Fox.
- First Ecco paperback edition.
- xx, 363 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
An intellectual detective story follows the quest to unlock one of the great secrets of human history--the decipherment of Linear B, an unknown script from the Aegean Bronze Age.
Inscriptions, Linear B. Civilization, Mycenaean. Women linguists--Biography. Archaeologists--Great Britain--Biography. Archaeologists--Greece--Biography. Inscriptions, Linear B--Greece--Knossos (Extinct city)