The Riddle of the Labyrinth Pdf Summary
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 Greece’s Classical Age, he discovered a cache of ancient tablets, Europe’s earliest written records. For half a century, the meaning of the inscriptions, and even the language in which they were written, would remain a mystery. Award-winning New York Times journalist Margalit Fox’s riveting real-life intellectual detective story travels from the Bronze Age Aegean–the era of Odysseus, Agamemnon, and Helen–to the turn of the 20th century and the work of charismatic English archeologist Arthur Evans, to the colorful personal stories of the decipherers. 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 decipherment; and Alice Kober, the unsung heroine of the story whose painstaking work allowed Ventris to crack the code.
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About Margalit Fox Author Of The Riddle of the Labyrinth pdf Book
Margalit Fox Author Of The Riddle of the Labyrinth pdf Book, She is originally trained as a cellist and a linguist before pursuing journalism. As a senior writer in The New York Times’s celebrated Obituary News Department, she wrote the front-page public sendoffs of some of the leading cultural figures of our age. Winner of the William Saroyan Prize for Literature and author of three previous books, “Conan Doyle for the Defense,” “The Riddle of the Labyrinth” and “Talking Hands,” Fox lives in Manhattan with her husband, the writer and critic George Robinson.
The Riddle of the Labyrinth pdf, Paperback, Hardcover Book Information
- Publisher : Ecco; 1st edition (May 14, 2013)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 384 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0062228838
- ISBN-13 : 978-0062228833
- Item Weight : 1.28 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 1.21 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,071,990 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,081 in Ancient Greek History (Books)
- #1,228 in Expeditions & Discoveries World History (Books)
- #2,256 in Linguistics Reference
- Customer Reviews: 4.4 out of 5 stars 444 ratings
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