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In any event, Ventris did, finally, decode Linear B, but died (at thirty-four) before arriving at a translation of Linear A.
Thus, Champollion had little enough to go on to decipher the Rosetta Stone, and Ventris would have been hard put to find a native speaker of Minoan Linear B (or A).
Ventris, the program held, vowed to be the one who would one day translate the script(s), a reflex of ambition rarely associated with teenagers today.
A recent program on the Minoan civilization mentioned that Michael Ventris was a teenager when he listened to a lecture by Sir Arthur Evans in which he described his struggles trying to translate what had become known as Linear A and Linear B, the ancient scripts found at Knossos and elsewhere in Crete.
Another significant break-through was that of Michael Ventris (1922-1956), who deciphered the Linear B script found on Crete and identified it as an early form of Greek.