Michael Ventris
✶July 12, 1922
†September 6, 1956
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✶July 12, 1922
†September 6, 1956
7 candles from 4 countries
Would you like to keep memories of someone else?
Michael George Francis Ventris was an English architect, classicist and philologist who deciphered Linear B, the ancient Mycenaean Greek script. A student of languages, Ventris had pursued decipherment as a personal vocation since his adolescence. After creating a new field of study, Ventris died in a car crash a few weeks before the publication of Documents in Mycenaean Greek, written with John Chadwick.
British architect and linguist (1922-1956)
Biography from the article Michael Ventris on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.