Silvia Ferrara

SILVIA FERRARA is Professor of Philology and Civilizations of the Aegean and Pre-Classical Mediterranean at the Università degli Studi di Bologna. An expert on both ancient undeciphered scripts and the invention of writing, she is the author and editor of numerous books, including Cypro-Minoan Inscriptions (2012) and The Greatest Invention (2019). In 2017 she was awarded an ERC grant for the project INSCRIBE (Invention of Scripts and their Beginnings).

SILVIA FERRARA is Professor of Philology and Civilizations of the Aegean and Pre-Classical Mediterranean at the Università degli Studi di Bologna. An expert on both ancient undeciphered scripts and the invention of writing, she is the author and editor of numerous books, including Cypro-Minoan Inscriptions (2012) and The Greatest Invention (2019). In 2017 she was awarded an ERC grant for the project INSCRIBE (Invention of Scripts and their Beginnings). See less