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Nearly reinventing the wheel

When writing systems disappear, not all is lost, quite the opposite

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Dr Cristian Ispir
Jul 29, 2024
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A clay tablet containing Linear B script

During the Late Bronze Age collapse, sometime around 1,200 BC, the Mycenaean civilization of mainland Greece entered a crisis and disappeared, taking with it its very sophisticated syllabic writing system known as Linear B.

Linear B was adapted from the script used by the Minoan civilization in Crete, known as Li…

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