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FURTHER READING

BIOGRAPHICAL

The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris

Andrew Robinson 2002 Thames & Hudson London

Michael Ventris Remembered

Simon Tetlow, Ben Harris, David Rogers and A.G. Meredith

Edited by A.G. Meredith 1984 Stowe School Stowe

The Riddle Of The Labyrinth

Margalit Fox 2013 Profile Books London

DECIPHERMENT

The Decipherment Of Linear B

John Chadwick 1958 Cambridge University Press Cambridge

The Decipherment Of Linear B And The Ventris-Chadwick Correspondence Exhibition Catalogue

L.M. Bendall 2003 Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge

Documents In Mycenaean Green

Michael Ventris and John Chadwick

1956 Cambridge University Press

Lost  Languages: The Enigma Of The World’s Undeciphered Scripts

Andrew Robinson 2002 Thames & Hudson London

Reading The Past: Linear B and Related Scripts

John Chadwick 1987 British Museum Press London 

GENERAL

The Aegean World: A Guide To The Cycladic, Minoan and Mycenaean Antiquaries In The Ashmolean Museum

ed. Yannis Galanakis 2013 Ashmolean Museum/Rapon Editions Oxford/Athens

The Bull Of Minos

Leonard Cottrell 1953 Evans Brothers Limited London

ONLINE RESOURCES

Archives 

Architectural Association Archive, London: Michael Ventris' Student Papers

http://archives.aaschool.ac.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=AA%2f02%2f02%2f01%2f02%2f24

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Sir Arthur Evans Archive

http://sirarthurevans.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/

Institute of Classical Studies, London: The Ventris Papers

https://ics.sas.ac.uk/research/archives

RIBA Archive: Michael Ventris' Architectual Papers

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N13663140

University of Cambridge, Faculty of Classics: The Ventris-Chadwick Correspondence

https://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/research/projects/mycep/archive/correspondence

University of Texas at Austin: Michael Ventris Papers

https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/20176

Other Resources

Architectural Association PhD Abstract by Emmanouil Stavrakakis: The Architecture of Linear B

http://pr2013.aaschool.ac.uk/PHD/Emmanouil-Stavrakakis/

Architectural Association Members' Lecture by Emmanuel Stavrakakis

https://memberevents.aaschool.ac.uk/events/michael-ventris-how-did-the-architect-decipher-the-script/

RESOURCES (as pdfs)

Michael Ventris Remembered

Simon Tetlow, Ben Harris, David Rogers and A.G. Meredith

Edited by A.G. Meredith 1984 Stowe School Stowe

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