Using advanced digital imaging technologies, classics professor and archaeologist Dimitri Nakassis is changing long-held perceptions of how prehistoric Greek communities functioned. Nakassis studies ...
Clay tablet, dated to 1450-1375 BC, inscribed with Linear B script. The Linear B script of the Mycenaen civilization (c. 1600 to 1100 BC) represented an early form of Greek. It was descended from the ...
The Mycenaeans, a Bronze Age civilization that conquered the Minoans, used a written language called Linear B (shown inscribed on tablet), that was an early form of Greek. Disclaimer: AAAS and ...
The sixth edition of The Knossos Tabletsbrings for now to completion nearly 120 years of the study of the texts of the Linear B inscriptions from the preeminent Cretan palatial site of the late Minoan ...
Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Jill Kitson: Welcome to Lingua Franca on ABC Radio National. This week: The mystery of Linear B, the ...
The hundreds of clay tablets found in the ruins of King Minos’ palace at Knossos, Crete, and on the supposed site of King Nestor’s palace near Pylos on the Greek mainland long provided archaeology ...