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... script ; there were two different , more advanced scripts ( in which the individual signs stand for syllables ) , which he called Linear A and B , respectively ; and on a small disk found at Phaistos , possibly an imported object ...
... script ; there were two different , more advanced scripts ( in which the individual signs stand for syllables ) , which he called Linear A and B , respectively ; and on a small disk found at Phaistos , possibly an imported object ...
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... script has not been found at any Cretan site other than Knossos . Does this mean that the conquest by speakers of Greek , for such it seems to have been , did not extend to the rest of the island ? Perhaps or perhaps we are being misled ...
... script has not been found at any Cretan site other than Knossos . Does this mean that the conquest by speakers of Greek , for such it seems to have been , did not extend to the rest of the island ? Perhaps or perhaps we are being misled ...
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... scripts , Punic Castor ( and Pollux ) , 25 , 173 Catal Hüyük , 22 , 23 Cato the Censor , 133 Catullus , 129 caves , in Crete , 8–9 , 12 , 14 , 22 Celsus , 178 Celts , 171 , 212 Ceylon , 211 Chadwick , John , 19 , 216 Champollion , J. F. ...
... scripts , Punic Castor ( and Pollux ) , 25 , 173 Catal Hüyük , 22 , 23 Cato the Censor , 133 Catullus , 129 caves , in Crete , 8–9 , 12 , 14 , 22 Celsus , 178 Celts , 171 , 212 Ceylon , 211 Chadwick , John , 19 , 216 Champollion , J. F. ...
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Desperately Foreign | 1 |
The Rediscovery of Crete | 7 |
the Trojan War | 24 |
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