Amateur May Have Cracked Linear A, a 120-Year-Old Linguistic Puzzle
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An amateur may have cracked Linear A, the Bronze Age Minoan script that has defied decipherment since its discovery around 1900. Unlike Linear B — decoded by architect Michael Ventris in 1952 — Linear A encodes a language isolate with no known relatives, making it exceptionally resistant to classical linguistic methods. The claim carries an explicit hedge ('may have'), meaning independent verification is still pending.
