Who Was Michael Ventris And What Did He Decipher?

Who Was Michael Ventris And What Did He Decipher? —died Sept. 6, 1956, near Hatfield, Hertfordshire), English architect and cryptographer who in 1952 deciphered the Minoan Linear B script and showed it to be Greek in its oldest known form, dating from about 1400 to 1200 bc, roughly the period of the events narrated in