How the later Greeks felt about the Mycenaeans
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The Mycenaeans used Linear B to keep records of their trading and economy, unfortunately, the writing was not used to tell stories or show feelings. This made Arthur Evans angry, because he was certain it was a Minoan script (Evans died in 1941, however he was unhappy with any theory, up until then, that Linear B was anything but Minoan writing). Assuming that the language of Linear B was Greek, Ventris made a break through in the early 1950s with the help of others working on the script, including American archaeologist, Alice Kober. In 1939, Carl Blegen, an American archaeologist, found several tablets of Linear B on the Greek mainland in the Mycenaean ruins of Pylos. Ventris could speak many different languages fluently, and could pick up a new language quickly. Ventris became an architect, but never lost his passion for Linear B. Hearing these words a second time, Ventris decided that day, that he would be the one to decipher this ancient script.
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Young Ventris was fascinated by the script, and when Arthur Evans told the class that the script had not been deciphered, young Ventris asked Evans to repeat what he had just said. A young schoolboy named Michael Ventris saw the Linear B tablets while touring the British Museum. Arthur Evans credited the writing system to the Minoans. Linear B tablets were first found on the island of Crete, the writing was similar to the Minoan Linear A.