![]() ![]() Undergraduate students were hardly the greatest obstacles in Kober's path. At the story's center is Kober, a professor at Brooklyn College, laboring under the requirements of teaching a full course load to undergraduates while she works out the secrets of the strange writing system in her spare time. The New York Times senior writer Margalit Fox tells an intricate and riveting story of how the writing system was deciphered in her book, "The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code." What emerges is a puzzle-solvers delight and a detective story full of longing and frustration, discovery and maddening egotism. ![]() ![]() But behind his accomplishment - and it was an accomplishment - was the painstaking but unacknowledged detective work of a woman named Alice Kober, whose remarkably thorough and thoroughly logical approach to the squiggles and horses and lines provided the keys that Ventris employed to solve the riddle. In 1952, a 29-year-old British man named Michael Ventris drew worldwide acclaim when he worked out a way to read that writing, designated as Linear B. ![]()
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