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Linear A script was used by the Minoan civilization centred on Crete during the Bronze Age. Used from around 1850 to around 1450 BCE, the script has never been deciphered. Artefacts bearing Linear A script, most commonly clay tablets, have...

Linear B script was the writing system of the Mycenaean civilization of the Bronze Age Mediterranean. The syllabic script was used to write Mycenaean Greek from c. 1500 to c. 1200 BCE. It was deciphered by Michael Ventris in 1952, and so...

A clay tablet from Zakros, Crete inscribed with Linear A script. Still undeciphered, Linear A script was used by the Minoan civilization from c. 1850 to c. 1450 BCE. (Zakros Archaeological Museum)

A sample of Linear B script. This piece contains information on the distribution of bovine, pig and deer hides to shoe and saddle-makers.

Example of a Linear B clay tablet found at Knossos. It records quantities of oil apparently offered to various deities.

An example of a Minoan Linear A tablet.

The Greek Alphabet developed from the Phoenician script at some point around the 8th century BCE. The earlier Mycenaean Linear B script, used primarily for lists and inventories, had been lost during the Greek Dark Age, and the technology...

Script is the written expression of a language. Cuneiform, the first script, was invented in Sumer, Mesopotamia c. 3500 BCE, hieroglyphics sometime prior to the Early Dynastic Period in Egypt (c. 3150-2613 BCE), and Sanskrit in India during...

The Minoan ivory scepter discovered in Crete in 2024 is engraved with the longest Linear A inscription ever found. The inscription consists of approximately 119 signs covering the entire surface of the circular head and both sides of the...

Pottery vessel with linear whirl design from China, Gansu or Qinghai Province, Majiayao culture, late 4th / early 3rd millennium BCE. Exhibited at the Rietberg Museum, Zurich, Switzerland.