Michael Ventris Centenary: 1922 - 2022
Patrick Hunter relates the story of how the fourteen-year-old Michael Ventris first discovered Linear B at a talk by the archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans in 1936. Linear B is an ancient writing system found on clay tablets uncovered by Evans in Crete in 1900. Deciphering the script became Michael's overriding passion until he cracked it shortly before his thirtieth birthday in 1952, when he discovered it was an early form of Greek. His achievement is regularly compared to the decipherment of the Enigma code by Alan Turing.
Patrick Hunter, Michael's teacher, was interviewed by author Andrew Robinson in 1990 at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. The footage was never used and at Andrew's suggestion I acquired it from Brook Lapping Productions and edited it into the film you see. I would like to thank Andrew and Brian Lapping for their help and for allowing me to use the material. I would also like to thank Emmanuel Stavrakakis for the photograph of the 1936 exhibition and Tony Meredith for the photograph of Ventris as a boy.
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