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The 24 pages that link to Linear B, each with the reason it gives.

• HomerRelated: Its tablets provide evidence about the Bronze Age world behind some Homeric traditions.

• Greek languageRelated: Its decipherment established that Greek was written centuries before the alphabetic records.

• Mycenaean GreeceRelated: Its clay tablets document palace administration and identify the language as Greek.

• IliadRelated: Its decipherment confirmed that the language behind some Homeric names and formulas had Bronze Age roots.

• Ancient GreekRelated: Its deciphered tablets provide the earliest substantial written evidence of Greek.

• EpigraphyRelated: Its decipherment showed that inscriptions could recover a previously unknown stage of Greek.

• Late Bronze Age collapseRelated: Its disappearance with the palaces marks the end of written palace administration in Greece.

• Homeric questionRelated: Its decipherment established that Greek was written centuries before the poems' usual dating.

• SyllabaryBroader topic: Its signs encode syllables alongside a smaller set of ideograms.

• Greek Dark AgesCompared with: Its disappearance marks the loss of palace-based record keeping.

• KnossosRelated: Linear B tablets at Knossos document a later administrative phase after Mycenaean influence.

• Indo-European linguisticsRelated: Its decipherment revealed Greek records older than previously available written evidence.

• Late Bronze AgeRelated: Its tablets record palace administration and commodity accounting in Mycenaean centers.

• Homeric epicsRelated: Its decipherment revealed Bronze Age Greek but did not verify the epics as historical records.

• Minoan civilizationCompared with: Its decipherment contrasts with the continuing uncertainty surrounding Linear A.

• PylosRelated: Its clay tablets preserve Pylos’s administrative records.

• Linear ACompared with: Its decipherment revealed how much of Linear A’s sign system could be read without identifying its language.

• Michael VentrisRelated: Ventris’s decipherment established that this script recorded an early form of Greek.

• Arthur EvansRelated: Evans excavated tablets at Knossos but died before Michael Ventris deciphered the script.

• MycenaeRelated: Clay tablets found at Mycenae preserve records of its palace economy.

• Carl BlegenRelated: The tablets from Pylos preserved the administrative records found during Blegen’s excavation.

• Hurrian songsCompared with: Its tablets are contemporary with Ugarit’s archive but record administration, not Hurrian song.

• Helladic chronologyRelated: Its dated records offer historical anchors for parts of Late Helladic chronology.

• History of GreeceRelated: Its decipherment established that the Mycenaean palace records were written in Greek.