Riddle of the Labyrinth The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code

Name: Riddle of the Labyrinth The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
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ISBN: 9780062228833

ISBN-10: 0062228838

ISBN-13: 9780062228833

Edition: 2013

Authors: Margalit Fox

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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. When famed archaeologist Arthur Evans unearthed the ruins of a sophisticated Bronze Age civilization that flowered on Crete 1,000 years before Greece’s Classical Age, he discovered a cache of ancient tablets, Europe’s earliest written records. For half a century, the meaning of the inscriptions, and even the language in which they were written, would remain a mystery. …

Book details

List price: $27.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 5/14/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Introduction


Prologue Buried Treasure



The Digger



The Record-Keepers



The Vanished Key



Love Among the Ruins



The Detective



American Champollion



A Delightful Problem



Splitting the Baby



The Matrix



"Hurry Up and Decipher the Thing!"



The Architect



The Hollow Boy



A Leap of Faith



"I Know It, I Know It"



Solution, Dissolution


Epilogue Mr. X and Mr. Y


Appendix: The Signs of Linear B


References


Notes


Acknowledgments


Picture Credits


Index