These include Michael Ventris, the brilliant amateur who deciphered the script but met with a sudden, mysterious death that may have been a direct consequence of the deipherment and Alice Kober, the unsung heroine of the story whose painstaking work allowed Ventris to crack the code. In The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code, Margalit Fox tells the story of a professor at Brooklyn College solving the riddle of a language from the ancient city of. Award-winning New York Times journalist Margalit Foxs riveting real-life intellectual detective story travels from the Bronze Age Aegeanthe era of Odysseus, Agamemnon, and Helento the turn of the 20th century and the work of charismatic English archeologist Arthur Evans, to the colorful personal stories of the decipherers. In Fox, the story has found a worthy Conan. For half a century, the meaning of the inscriptions, and even the language in which they were written, would remain a mystery. In Margalit Fox’s new history of the case, The Riddle of the Labyrinth, Sherlock Holmes makes several cameo appearances, and for good reason. In the tradition of Simon Winchester and Dava Sobel, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code tells one of the most intriguing stories in the history of language, masterfully blending history, linguistics, and cryptology with an elegantly wrought narrative.When famed archaeologist Arthur Evans unearthed the ruins of a sophisticated Bronze Age civilization that flowered on Crete 1,000 years before Greeces Classical Age, he discovered a cache of ancient tablets, Europes earliest written records.
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