Given the power and prominence of King Minos in the legendary history of Crete, it was easy to assume that this ...

Excavations before and after World War II revealed remnants of a large Mycenaean palace dating to about 1300 B.C., as well as hundreds of clay tablets written in the Linear B script developed on ...

Linear A script is the still-undeciphered writing system used by the Minoans during the Neopalatial period (c. 1700–1450 BCE). The discovery of this scepter has opened up new avenues for the study of ...

Knossos palace in Crete. Credit: Cayambe / Wikimedia Commons The ivory object, provisionally identified as a scepter or ritual staff, features an engraved inscription in the Linear A script on all its ...

His underlying thesis, that the language of the script known as Minoan Linear A is Semitic, if true, opens a new frontier in Old Testament studies.

In 1947, Minoan script was a dark mystery. But a young English amateur, Michael Ventris, was brooding over it. ... The same holds for Greek Linear B and Minoan Linear A.

The Mycenaeans also borrowed the Minoan script, called Linear A, and adapted it to their own use; this script is now called Linear B. Mycenaean society, too, began to change shape.

This ancient script has remained unsolved for over a century In 1908, an archaeologist in Crete discovered a small clay disk bearing unknown symbols. Now known as the Phaistos disk, it remains a ...

Evans had excavated the palace complex of Knossos and uncovered the material remains of Minoan Crete at the turn of the century. He was looking for evidence of writing; he found it just a week into ...

Boyd had also found a clay disk called a roundel bearing a short inscription in the Linear A script. Just 400 yards from the town, on Mirabello Bay, Gournia’s ancient residents built a fully ...