Alice Kober

Yeah.

By the way, Alice Kober, Michael Ventress, and John Chadwick.

Jenny, are you doing

research on the podcast?

This is Linear A, the great unsolved writing system of Bronze Age Crete, and for more than a century it has stubbornly refused to speak to us.

Because those later Mycenaean warlords had adapted the older Minoan symbols to fit their own Greek vocabulary, a linguistic puzzle heavily reliant on the meticulous gridwork of classicist Alice Kober before Michael Ventris made his final breakthrough, many of the characters in the older script are visually identical to their readable descendants.

The frustrating paradox of Linear A is that linguists can apply those Greek sound values to the Minoan symbols and read them aloud.

However, The resulting words make no sense at all.