#OnThisDay in 1952 Michael Ventris announced on the radio that he had deciphered the Linear B script, and the language it was used to write was Greek: www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/maga... #AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky 🏺 1/2
Linear B decoder Michael Ventris on BBC in 1952For more than 50 years, the decipherment of a mysterious ancient script called Linear B was seen as one of the greatest linguistic riddles - it was eventually cracked in 1952 by a British architect.www.bbc.co.uk