Sunday, May 29, 2016

Yet another young death.........................the American woman who came close to cracking Linear B........


Alice Kober - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Wikipedia
Alice Elizabeth Kober (December 23, 1906 – May 16, 1950) was an American classicist best known for extensive investigations that eventually led to the decipherment of Linear B.

Alice Kober: Unsung heroine who helped decode Linear B - BBC News

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BBC
Jun 6, 2013 - Linear B tablet (l), and Alice Kober (r) Image caption One of the few pictures of the woman who worked behind the scenes on Linear B ...

Alice E. Kober, 43; Lost to History No More - The New York Times

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The New York Times
May 11, 2013 - Alice Kober in a 1946 photo from The Brooklyn Eagle. ... the contributions of this brilliant American woman have been all but lost to time. ... Dr. Kober's work on Linear B spanned more than a decade, and the archive includes ...

Interview: Margalit Fox, Author Of 'The Riddle Of The Labyrinth' : NPR

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NPR
Jun 30, 2013 - An ancient tablet contains records written in Linear B — a script that was ... In The Riddle of the Labyrinth, she tells the story of Alice Kober, ...


How an American Linguist Helped Unlock the Secrets of Linear B ...

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Public Radio International
May 13, 2013 - A sample of Linear B script, the earliest Greek writing, 1450 BC, and an ... analysis ofLinear B undertaken by an American linguist, Alice Kober.

Alice Kober - Women in Old World Archaeology

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Brown University
1800 Knossos Linear B tablets. ... Alice Elizabeth Kober. ... American Classicist and Archaeologist,Alice Kober received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in ...

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