I've always found this bit of history curious:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_A
So much time has passed, and still nobody has cracked the code. Not that it was a code. It's an old language, predecessor to Greek. Whoever does eventually figure it out will get all kind of kudos.
Linear A
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Re: Linear A
I've found Minoan language blog about someone's attempts to decipher Linear A. It's very much a work in progress, but it looks interesting.
The Linear A language continues to be obscure, though it is almost certainly not Greek and probably not Indo-European.
The Linear A language continues to be obscure, though it is almost certainly not Greek and probably not Indo-European.
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A "cobbler of fables" [Augustine]; "Leucius is the disciple of the devil" [Decretum Gelasianum]; and his books "should be utterly swept away and burned" [Pope Leo I]; they are the "source and mother of all heresy" [Photius]