Later, the presence of Minoan merchants also prompted island communities far from Knossos to adopt Crete’s standard system of weights and measures. Linear A, the Cretan writing system ...

The latter was deciphered in the early 1950s (it turned out to represent an early form of Greek), while Linear A has still not been deciphered. The excavations on Crete also revealed a third type ...

He read Classics at Cambridge, where he also completed his PhD on the administrative organization of Late Minoan II–IIIB Crete based on archaeological and textual (Linear B) evidence and held a Junior ...