The riddle of the labyrinth : the quest to crack an ancient code / Margalit Fox.
Por: Fox, Margalit.
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LibroEditor: New York : Ecco Press, [2013]Edición: 1st ed.Descripción: xx, 363 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780062228833 (trade); 0062228838 (trade).Tema(s): Inscriptions, Linear B | Civilization, Mycenaean | Kober, Alice, 1906-1950 | Evans, Arthur, Sir, 1851-1941 | Ventris, Michael | Women linguists -- Biography | Archaeologists -- Great Britain -- Biography | Archaeologists -- Greece -- Biography | Inscriptions, Linear B | Mycenes (Extinct city) -- Civilization | Kober, Alice, 1906-1950 | Evans, Arthur, Sir, 1851-1941 | Ventris, Michael | Women linguists -- Biography | Archeologists -- Great Britain -- Biography | Archeologists -- Greece -- BiographyClasificación CDD: 487/.1 | Tipo de ítem | Ubicación actual | Colección | Signatura | Estado | Fecha de vencimiento | Código de barras |
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Bureche School | Colección General | 487/.1 FOX | Disponible | T 10278 |
Booklist starred, April 2013
Publisher's Weekly, March 2013
"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"--Provided by OCLC.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-346) and index.
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 deciper the thing!" -- The architect. The hollow boy ; A leap of faith ; "I know it, I know it" ; Solution, dissolution -- Mr. X and Mr. Y.
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