- Mycenaean Civilization, Inscriptions, Linear B., Archaeologists, Biography
In the tradition of Simon Winchester and Dava Sobel, *The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code* tells one of the most intriguing stories in the history of language, masterfully blending history, linguistics, and cryptology with an elegantly wrought narrative.
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- Author
- Margalit Fox
- First published
- 2013
- Pages
- 363
- Publisher
- Ecco
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780062228833
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