Nearly reinventing the wheel

When writing systems disappear, not all is lost, quite the opposite

A clay tablet containing Linear B script

During the Late Bronze Age collapse, sometime around 1,200 BC, the Mycenaean civilization of mainland Greece entered a crisis and disappeared, taking with it its very sophisticated syllabic writing system known as Linear B.

Linear B was adapted from the script used by the Minoan civilization in Crete, known as Li…