The Decipherment of Linear B

i think a lot of listeners are probably interested in how the hell any one actually has gone about deciphering any of these scripts. What michael ventrys did was to assign phonetic values, sounds, to the signs through an internal reconstruction without the aid of bilingals. And he could see that there was an inflectional pattern. In fact, it was alice cober, cober the one that spotted the inflectionalpattern.