John Chadwick

Yeah.

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

Jenny, are you doing

research on the podcast?

I am doing real-time show notes.

I was going to say Alice Cooper, so I was really close.

John Chadwick was never happening.

Sorry,

For a long time, Linear B was just as mysterious as its predecessor.

Then, in 1952, an architect and codebreaker named Michael Ventris, working alongside scholar John Chadwick, made an astonishing breakthrough.

By studying patterns in the text, such as repeating word endings and localized place names, Ventris established that Linear B encoded an early, archaic form of Greek.

This discovery revised classical history, suggesting with high confidence that the Greek language was being spoken and written centuries earlier than anyone had previously believed.