Record ID | marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part41.utf8:24736668:2355 |
Source | Library of Congress |
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001 2013404394
003 DLC
005 20150630140431.0
008 140305t20132013nyuab b 001 0ceng d
010 $a 2013404394
020 $a9780062228833 (hbk.)
020 $a0062228838 (hbk.)
020 $z9780062228888 (electronic bk.)
020 $z0062228889 (electronic bk.)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn841944772
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042 $alccopycat
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050 00 $aP1038$b.F69 2013
082 04 $a487/.1$223
100 1 $aFox, Margalit,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe riddle of the labyrinth :$bthe quest to crack an ancient code /$cMargalit Fox.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bEcco, An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,$c[2013]
264 4 $c©2013
300 $axx, 363 pages :$billustrations, map ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $aColored illustrations on lining papers.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 289-296) and index.
505 0 $aPrologue : buried treasure -- The digger. The record-keepers -- The vanished key -- Love among the ruins -- The detective. American champollion -- A delightful problem -- Splitting the baby -- The matrix -- "Hurry up and decipher the thing!" -- The architect. The hollow boy -- A leap of faith -- "I know it, I know it" -- Solution, dissolution -- Epilogue : Mr. X and Mr. Y -- Appendix : the signs of Linear B.
520 $aAn intellectual detective story follows the quest to unlock one of the great secrets of human history--the decipherment of Linear B, an unknown script from the Aegean Bronze Age.
650 0 $aInscriptions, Linear B.
650 0 $aCivilization, Mycenaean.
600 10 $aKober, Alice,$d1906-1950.
600 10 $aEvans, Arthur,$cSir,$d1851-1941.
600 10 $aVentris, Michael.
650 0 $aWomen linguists$vBiography.
650 0 $aArchaeologists$zGreat Britain$vBiography.
650 0 $aArchaeologists$zGreece$vBiography.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1406/2013404394-b.html