background. Michael Ventris was their only child. The family moved to Switzerland for eight years, seeking a healthy environment for Colonel Ventris. Young...
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surname Ventris: Christopher Ventris (21st century), British tenor Michael Ventris (1922–1956), English architect and classical scholar Peyton Ventris (1645–1691)...
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then eighty-four years old. A teenage Michael Ventris was present in the audience. In 1940, the 18-year-old Ventris had an article Introducing the Minoan...
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ISBN 978-0-19-960134-9. Ventris and Chadwick (1973) page 389. Ventris and Chadwick (1973) pages 42–48. Ventris & Chadwick 1973, p. 47. Ventris & Chadwick 1973...
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classical scholar who was most notable for the decipherment, with Michael Ventris, of Linear B. John Chadwick was born at 18 Christ Church Road, Mortlake...
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completed by Michael Ventris between 1940 and 1952, with a particular "critical period" between 1948 and 18 June 1952. On 1 June, Ventris published a 'Work...
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settlement of Hagia Triada. A major breakthrough occurred in 1952, when Michael Ventris deciphered Linear B, drawing on earlier work by Alice Kober. This decipherment...
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George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project. Michael Ventris and John Chadwick, Documents in Mycenaean Greek, 2nd ed. (Cambridge...
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and later deciphered by English architect and cryptographer Michael Ventris in 1952. Ventris's discovery of an archaic Greek dialect in the Linear B tablets...
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B, a script used in the ancient Aegean, was deciphered in 1952 by Michael Ventris and John Chadwick, who demonstrated that it recorded an early form...
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Machine Ventris and Chadwick: Gods found in Mycenaean Greece Archived 1 October 2018 at the Wayback Machine: a table drawn up from Michael Ventris and John...
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Greek. It is basically a syllabary, which was finally deciphered by Michael Ventris and John Chadwick in the 1950s (its precursor, Linear A, has not been...
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summer of 1950 by a group of visiting English architects, including Michael Ventris, Oliver Cox, and Graeme Shankland, where it apparently "spread like...
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have played a part therein". This prediction would prove true: after Michael Ventris' decipherment of the script, his collaborator John Chadwick recognised...
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Hamilton Swindler. From 1940 to 1950 the journal published articles by Michael Ventris, Alice Kober and Emmett Bennett, which contributed to the decipherment...
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these languages has also been made previously by Raymond A. Brown. Michael Ventris, who successfully deciphered Linear B with John Chadwick, also thought...
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following the deciphering of Minoan Linear B script by Alice Kober, Michael Ventris and John Chadwick. Burns, Bryan E. (2010). Mycenaean Greece, Mediterranean...
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killer drama M, Josef von Sternberg's Dishonored starring Marlene Dietrich, Michael Powell's directorial debut Two Crowded Hours, Otto Preminger's directorial...
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and are inscribed with the Linear B script, which was deciphered by Michael Ventris in 1952 and corresponds to a very early form of Greek. The word basileus...
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of the time, Ventris did not use the term palace economy for anything more than the day-to-day economics of the palace, although Ventris and Chadwick...
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between 1600 and 1150 BC. The decipherment of Linear B in the 1950s by Michael Ventris and continued archaeological investigation has increased modern scholars'...
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Ivanovich Ivanov, Nikolai Aleksandrovich Nevsky, et al. Tangut script Michael Ventris, John Chadwick, and Alice Kober Linear B Yuri Knorozov and Tatiana...
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oldest samples of writing in the Greek language, as identified by Michael Ventris, is the Linear B archive from Knossos, dated approximately to 1425–1375 BC...
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inventories, receipts, etc.); no real literature has been discovered. Michael Ventris and John Chadwick, the original decipherers of Linear B, state that...
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Mirror Man (character) (section Floyd Ventris)
different characters appearing in comic books published by DC Comics. Floyd Ventris is a criminal who was detained at Gotham State Penitentiary. Using broken...
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of Ventris. Narrower rays extend much farther to the northwest and southwest. Ventris was formally named by the IAU in 1970 after Michael Ventris who...
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translating the Linear B tablets was achieved by English architect Michael Ventris in 1952, who found that it was an archaic form of Greek. The translation...
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equestrian Matthew Vaughn (born 1971), British director and producer Michael Ventris (1922–1956), English architect, classicist and philologist who deciphered...
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and Spanish, and had some knowledge of Swedish, Russian, and Greek. Michael Ventris (1922–1956), British architect and decipherer of Linear B. By the age...
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Linear A scripts was taken into consideration as the main hypothesis by Michael Ventris before he discovered that, in fact, the language behind the later Linear...
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