Credit: A. Kanta et al. The discovery of this inscription provides an unprecedented opportunity to advance the study of Linear A, a writing system still undeciphered, which was used in Crete and other ...

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 ...

A team of archaeologists has discovered in Knossos, on the Greek island of Crete, the longest Linear A inscription found to date. The script appears on a circular ivory object with an attached handle, ...

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 ...