Linear B Collection

Clay tablet with linear B script, 15th century BC
Clay tablet from Knossos with linear B script, from the British Museums collection, 15th century BC

Pictographs and linear script symbols. The British archaeologist Arthur Evans (1851-1941) found thousands of clay tablets dating from the second millennium BC at Knossos, Crete

The first grid, 1951, by the cryptographer Michael Ventris in his ultimately successful efforts to decipher Minoan
CRYPTOGRAPHY, 1951. The first grid, 1951, by the cryptographer Michael Ventris in his ultimately successful efforts to decipher Minoan Linear B script

Linear B tablet from Knossos, Crete, 15th century BC
Minoan Linear B tablet from Knossos, Crete, in the Archaeological Museum of Heracleion, Crete. Linear B is a syllabic script used for writing Mycenaean Greek

The second grid, 1951, by the cryptographer Michael Ventris in his ultimately successful efforts to decipher Minoan
CRYPTOGRAPHY, 1951. The second grid, 1951, by the cryptographer Michael Ventris in his ultimately successful efforts to decipher Minoan Linear B script

Minoan civilization, clay tablet with inscriptions in Linear B, from Haghia Triada
Minoan civilization, 15th century b.C. Clay tablet with inscriptions in Linear B. From Knossos. 1405-1400 a.C

Minoan scripts. Three scripts found by Arthur Evans on blocks in Mycenean buildings at Knossos, Crete. The scripts are known as Minoan Hieroglyphics, Linear A and Linear B

Linear script symbols arranged in groups of two or more. Whilst excavating Knossos, the British archaeologist Arthur Evans (1851-1941) found three forms of writing which he defined as Minoan

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