Brilliant Minds Who Cracked Impossible Mysteries

Michael Ventris took on a mystery that had stalled experts for half a century: what language hid behind Linear B, the script found on clay tablets in Crete. Most scholars insisted it was a lost tongue. Ventris proved it was early Greek, cracking the code through pattern analysis and a few bold guesses. The impact was huge. Greek history stretched back centuries, and instead of heroic myths, the tablets revealed palace bookkeeping, taxes, and livestock.