Early Aegean civilization developed on island of Crete. The king was called “minos” and the people of Crete became known as Minoans.
Some of the earliest writing can be traced to the Minoans. They developed three types of writing which included Linear Script A, B, and C. Linear Script B was a combination of Cretan and Greek scripts and is the only one to be translated.
The Heraklion Archaeological Museum in Knossos, Crete, has displays of some of these early scripts.
Linear Script A. This writing system was used by the Minoans of Crete from ca. 1800 to 1450 BC. This writing system was not in the Egyptian and Mesopotamian systems.
Linear Script B. This is script is said to be the earliest attested form of the Greek language. The earliest known examples are dated ca. 1450 BC. This script was deciphered in 1952 by Michael Ventris, who based his work on that of Alice Kober.
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