The Minoans live on in popular culture as people of the land of King Minos who kept the half bull, half man Minotaur in a labyrinth below his palace at Knossos. It really demands that you just take a leap of faith every time you venture out there.”ĭr Davis is talking about solving Linear A, the undeciphered language of the ancient Minoan civilisation of Crete that flourished around 1700 BCE to 1490 BCE. It is believed to be a wholly indigenous language. Linear A tablet discovered at the Hagia Triada archaeological site on Crete. Linguist and archaeologist Dr Brent Davis says it’s like walking out on a tightrope anchored at just one end and supported by nothing but thin air, hoping you find something to stop you from falling.
How do you go about deciphering the script of a wholly different language that was lost more than 3,000 years ago?
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