Re:Amateur may have cracked Linear A, a 120-year-old puzzle
by YeGoblynQueenne on Friday June 19, 2026 @08:15PM
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The name of Cyprus being of semitic origin is probably easy to hand-wave away as the result of trade.
I'd like to offer some evidence that the people of Crete were of Greek origin and therefore Indo-European rather than semitic, unfortunately all the scholarship I can find on the subject is from Greek scholars and since it confirms that the Minoans are genetically related to modern Greeks, the more I hear of that evidence the less I am convinced by it. Because it's exactly consistent with confirmation bias. So I would not be surprised if the Minoans turned out to be one of the lost tribes of Israel.
Except of course we know those turned up in the America so they can't be the Minoans.
I'd like to offer some evidence that the people of Crete were of Greek origin and therefore Indo-European rather than semitic, unfortunately all the scholarship I can find on the subject is from Greek scholars and since it confirms that the Minoans are genetically related to modern Greeks, the more I hear of that evidence the less I am convinced by it. Because it's exactly consistent with confirmation bias. So I would not be surprised if the Minoans turned out to be one of the lost tribes of Israel.
Except of course we know those turned up in the America so they can't be the Minoans.
Yeah it's a joke. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Indian_theory