As Margalit Fox says at the outset of The Riddle of the Labyrinth, the story of Linear B is well known. This 3,000-year-old language was discovered on clay tablets excavated in 1900 on the island of ...

Margalit Fox's fantastic The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code is where puzzle solving, detectives, and history meet. Fox, a linguist and senior writer for the New York Times ...

(via TEDEd) In the early 1900s, archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans uncovered nearly 3,000 tablets inscribed with strange symbols. He thought the script, dubbed Linear B, represented the Minoan language, ...

For more than 50 years, a mysterious ancient script called Linear B was seen as one of the greatest linguistic riddles. Clay tablets with the script were discovered at the palace at Knossos in Crete ...