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Original recording from BBC, from July 1st 1952. Michael Ventris announces that he has deciphered Linear B. He was the one who realised that it was, in fact, and old version of Greek.

✿ Original file extracted from here: http://www.bbc.com/news/av/magazine2...

✿ 'The decipherment process', a really welldone divulgative summary in 5 pages about Linear B and its decipherment. Published by Cambridge University: http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/pdfs/my... (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED).

✿ More on Michael Ventris: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael...

✿ More on Linear B: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_B