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Michael Ventris


Born
in Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, England
July 12, 1922

Died
September 06, 1956

Genre
Nonfiction, Mycenaean Greek


Michael George Francis Ventris, OBE was an English architect, classicist and philologist who deciphered Linear B, the ancient Mycenaean Greek script. A student of languages, Ventris had pursued the decipherment as a personal vocation since his adolescence. After creating a new field of study, Ventris died in an automobile accident a few weeks before the publication, with John Chadwick, of Documents in Mycenaean Greek.

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