The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code

by Margalit Fox

Book Overview

In the tradition of Simon Winchester and Dava Sobel, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code tells one of the most intriguing stories in the history of language, masterfully blending history, linguistics, and cryptology with an elegantly wrought narrative. When famed archaeologist Arthur Evans unearthed the ruins of a sophisticated Bronze Age civilization that flowered on Crete 1,000 years before Greece's Classical Age, he...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062228838
• ISBN13: 9780062228833
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"