How to pronounce “ventris” in English

Ventris was actually brilliantly able to get five sound values.

To Ventris, the solution brought worldwide acclaim.

Michael Ventris would waggishly name these trios of related forms "Kober's triplets."

But Ventris had indeed been toying with the script for literally half of his 30 years by that point.

And Ventris, through doing years of minute frequency analysis, much as Kober was independently doing, made the

So let's do what Ventris did now and examine the word a syllable at a time.

One, Michael Ventris, was a young English architect with a mournful past, whose fascination with the tablets had begun as a boyhood hobby.

And it was just these methods that ultimately let Michael Ventris decipher Linear B.

Now, Michael Ventris was almost certainly the most natively brilliant of the three central actors in the Linear B drama.

What if, Ventris wondered, some of the related words in Kober's triplets were actually related forms of Cretan place

With this in mind, Ventris began assigning sound values experimentally to the characters in Kober's triplets, based on the relationships among the

Linear B. Now the extraordinary thing about Ventris is that he was neither an archaeologist, like Arthur Evans, nor a classicist, like Alice Kober, nor a scholar in any other

So on the strength of this word, Ventris plugged sound values into other words on the tablets, and they too yielded important Cretan place names.

And it was precisely these relationships that would let Michael Ventris, after he read Kober's published articles in

But in his short life, Michael Ventris managed to solve one of the greatest riddles in Western history.

On June 1, 1952, Ventris took the microphone at BBC Radio to announce to the world his remarkable discovery.

She kept at it until very nearly the day she died in 1950, just two years before Michael Ventris cracked the code using the methods she had devised.

In June of 1952, after spending more than half his life in the grip of Linear B, Michael Ventris, just shy of

In the spring of 1952, as he worked feverishly on the script in his elegant London flat, Ventris made a remarkable conjecture.

And it is thanks to three remarkable 20th-century heroes, Arthur Evans, Michael Ventris, and Alice Kober, that

In fact, the interesting thing about Etruscan, which is a lost non-Indo-European language of ancient Italy, Michael Ventris, from the time he was a boy until literally