Michael Ventris
Young Michael Ventris
Dorothea Ventris
Arthur Evans
Lois Ventris
The work and unexplained death of Michael Ventris, the English architect, classicist, and philologist who deciphered the ancient Mycenaean Greek script Linear B, are portrayed.
2002-07-22
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