John Chadwick.
The Decipherment of Linear B: 2nd edn.
CUP / Canto. 1990
The languages of the ancient world and the mysterious scripts, long undeciphered,
in which they were encoded
have represented one of the most intriguing problems of archaeology in modern times.
This celebrated account of the decipherment of Linear B in the 1950s by Michael Ventris
was written by his close collaborator in the momentous discovery.
In revealing the secrets of Linear B it offers a valuable survey
of late pre-Hellenic archaeology, uncovering fascinating details
of the religion and economic history of an ancient civilization.