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The riddle of the labyrinth : the quest to crack an ancient code

Fox, Margalit (author.).

Summary: An intellectual detective story follows the quest to unlock one of the great secrets of human history--the decipherment of Linear B, an unknown script from the Aegean Bronze Age.

Record details

ISBN: 9780062228864
ISBN: 0062228862
Physical Description: xx, 363 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
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Edition: First Ecco paperback edition.
Publisher: New York : Ecco, 2014.
Copyright: ℗♭2013

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-296) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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