Labels:mountain | poster | sky OCR: One of the Linear greatest riddles of 20th century archaeology was the writing used by the ancient civilisation of Crete from around 1500 BC Linear B as this script was called. evaded decoding ding for fifty years though the best brains in the field their utmost to decipher it. In 1952 brilliant young British architect called Michael Ventris announced that after 16 years of effort. ever since he was schoolboy he had finally broken the code the writing was in a form of Greek Ventris had managed the task that has been descri ibed as "the greatest feat of decipherment ever achieved. But just before his resuts were be published Ventris was killed ina road accident atthe age of34 ulhg described results publisheo Toad
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