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My understanding is that Ventris and Chadwick's decipherment of Linear B was eventually accepted, but its process is questionable since there were still many unknowns that took time to resolve. The parent particularly refers to the 1965 article Is Linear B deciphered? by Douglas Young [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27201234 has an excerpt.

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I'm getting flashbacks of getting a right answer for a problem in my high school math class

but then getting points deducted because I didn't use the right method for arriving at the solution

You misunderstand the problem. There's an 80 page article concerned with the spelling of one word and its inflections.

The typical solution would be to squint at it and write down the classical Greek form. That would be roughly equivalent to me talking English in Holland because I'm shy of Dutch, as a German native.

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