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“While we find the name of a Cretan town, ku-do-ni-ja 'Kydonía', written in Greek Linear B, we also find a Minoan parallel in Linear A, ku-do-ni (HT 13.4, HT 85 a.4) ~ ka-u-do-ni (HT 26 b.2-3), which might then be rewritten as Kaučoni /kawtʃoni/.”
“It could have been in Chinese, Linear B, BSL or filmed as a silent movie - the visual language of the film is so powerful and so clear that the script is more or less superfluous.”
“And he had better things to do with his time than learn the rebuslike system for recording Greek that we call Linear B.”
“The Mycenaeans left behind the first words written in Greek, on what are known as the Linear-B accountancy tablets.”
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“Minoan is written in a simple hieroglyphic script called Linear A.”
“The extrapolation that small quantities have a proportional effect to large one is known as the Linear No Threshold theory.”
“Called Linear B, it was in use from about 1450 to about 1180 B.C., after which it disappeared.”
“This is the Cretan writing, also known as Linear A script, which dates back to XV-XIV century B.C.The story goes on to quote a Bulgarian archeologist as saying the discovery "throws a completely different light on Bulgaria's history.”
“A new script called Linear A replaced the Hieroglyphic Script, but except for the numeral system and a few pictographic signs, it cannot be read.”
“Further obscuring this lost culture was the fact that the only surviving documents were written in two as-yet indecipherable script forms, known as Linear A and Linear B.”
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