Michael Ventris

Michael George Francis Ventris, OBE (12 July 1922 – 6 September 1956) was an English linguist and architect who, along with John Chadwick and Alice Kober, deciphered Linear B, a previously unknown ancient script discovered at Knossos by Arthur Evans. A prodigy in languages, Ventris had pursued the decipherment as an avocation since his teen-age years. After creating a new field of study, Ventris died in an automobile accident a few weeks before publication of his first definitive work, Documents in Mycenaean Greek.

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• Page 91 - Bahn, P., ed., 2008, The Great Archaeologists: Anness Publishing, London, 96p.