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The riddle of the labyrinth : the quest to crack an ancient code / Margalit Fox.
- Title
- The riddle of the labyrinth : the quest to crack an ancient code / Margalit Fox.
- Author
- Fox, Margalit
- Publication
- New York : Ecco, An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2013]
- ©2013
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | P1038 .F69 2013 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xx, 363 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- An intellectual detective story follows the quest to unlock one of the great secrets of human history--the decipherment of Linear B, an unknown script from the Aegean Bronze Age.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Note
- Colored illustrations on lining papers.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-346) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Buried treasure -- The digger. The record-keepers ; The vanished key ; Love among the ruins -- The detective. American champollion ; A delightful problem ; Splitting the baby ; The matrix ; "Hurry up and deciper the thing!" -- The architect. The hollow boy ; A leap of faith ; "I know it, I know it" ; Solution, dissolution -- Mr. X and Mr. Y.
- ISBN
- 0062228838
- 9780062228833
- 0062228889 (electronic bk.) (canceled/invalid)
- 9780062228888 (electronic bk.) (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- 841944772
- SCSB-10819431
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library