Picture credits

Line illustrations by Miles Smith-Morris.
Hieroglyphs reproduced by kind permission of British Museum Press.
Linear B characters reproduced by kind permission of Cambridge University Press.

1.1 Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh;

1.2 Ibrahim A. Al-Kadi and Mohammed Mrayati, King Saud University, Riyadh;

1.3 Public Record Office, London;

1.4 Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh;

2.1 Cliché Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, France;

2.2 Science and Society Picture Library, London;

2.3 The Beale Treasure-History of a Mystery by Peter Viemeister;

3.1 David Kahn Collection, New York;

3.1 Bundesarchiv, Koblenz;

3.2 National Archive, Washington DC;

3.3 General Research Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations;

3.4 Luis Kruh Collection, New York;

3.5 David Kahn Collection;

3.6 Science and Society Picture Library, London;

4.1 David Kahn Collection, New York;

4.2 Imperial War Museum, London;

4.3 Private collection of Barbara Eachus;

4.4 Godfrey Argent Agency, London;

4.5 Imperial War Museum, London;

4.6 Telegraph Group Limited, London;

5.1 National Archive, Washington DC;

5.2 British Museum Press, London;

5.3 Louvre, Paris © Photo RMN;

5.4 Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati;

5.5 Private collection of Eva Brann;

5.6 Source unknown;

5.7 Private collection of Joan Chadwick;

6.1 Sun Microsystems;

6.2 Stanford, University of California;

6.3 RSA Data Security, Inc.;

6.4 Private collection of Brenda Ellis;

6.5 Private collection of Clifford Cocks;

6.6 Private collection of Malcolm Williamson;

7.1 Network Associates, Inc.;

8.1 Penguin Books, London;

8.2 Thomas J. Watson Laboratories, IBM.