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Michael Ventris made the famous breakthrough, but Linear B yielded only after years of patient work by people who learned its patterns before claiming to know its words.
A telescope in orbit escapes the atmosphere that blocks and blurs light from the ground — a trade that has taken astronomers eight decades, several funding crises and one very embarrassing mirror to get right.
Joshua 6 describes a ritual, not a siege: six silent days, then trumpets and a shout on the seventh. Decades of excavation at the site have not settled when, or even whether, a city fell there to match it.
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