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Passage:
In 1952, English architect and self-taught linguist Michael Ventris deciphered Linear B, an ancient script found on clay tablets at Knossos and Pylos. Prior to Ventris’s breakthrough, prevailing scholarly opinion, spearheaded by archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans, held that Linear B encoded an unknown, non-Greek Minoan language unrelated to any known Indo-European tongue. Ventris initially shared this belief, attempting to analyze the syllabic signs under the assumption that the language was related to Etruscan. However, by constructing a grid to chart the contextual distribution and phonetic associations of recurring signs, Ventris discovered that certain sign combinations corresponded to geographical place names in Crete. When he substituted syllabic values derived from these place names into other tablet inscriptions, the resulting words closely matched an archaic form of Mycenaean Greek. Contrary to Evans's long-standing hypothesis, Ventris demonstrated that the Linear B tablets were administrative inventory records written in Greek, establishing that Greek literacy existed centuries earlier than previously believed.

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