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How Was the Ancient Greek Script of Linear B Deciphered? - The Decipherment of Linear B and the Mycenaean Palace Economy | Sleepy Facts About History
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A palace fire three thousand years ago turned disposable clay notes into our only readable words from Bronze Age Greece. The decipherment of the Linear B script revealed that these tablets were not epic poetry or royal chronicles, but the working administrative documents of a complex palace bureaucracy. They record rations, livestock, textile quotas, landholding arrangements, and military inventories, offering a precise but narrow window into the final months before the destruction of the…
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