“Every language glimmers with sparks of earlier ones. These sparks - a word, a place-name — are residual traces of languages spoken before, often long before, in the same part of the world. Though tiny, the sparks can illuminate a… — Margalit Fox Copy Share Image
“Though she is all but forgotten today, Alice Kober single-handedly brought the decipherment of Linear B closer to fruition than anyone before her. That… — Margalit Fox Copy Share Image
“THROUGHOUT THE FIRST decades of the century, scholars were following Evans’s few publications on Linear B with rapt interest. Like him, they could only… — Margalit Fox Copy Share Image
“After all, solving a jigsaw puzzle is no fun, if you know what the picture is in advance.” — Margalit Fox Copy Share Image
“Every language glimmers with sparks of earlier ones. These sparks - a word, a place-name — are residual traces of languages spoken before, often… — Margalit Fox Copy Share Image
“AND SO THE STORY ENDS, bracketed by two architects: Daedalus, who built the Minoan labyrinth, and Ventris, who found the thread that unraveled the… — Margalit Fox Copy Share Image
“Looking back, one can almost imagine them stalking through the wild with specimen bottles and outsize nets, in determined pursuit of the Ojibwa adverb… — Margalit Fox Copy Share Image
