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In 1936, Evans hosted an exhibition of Cretan archaeology at Burlington House in London, home of the Royal Academy.

It was the jubilee anniversary ( 50 years ) of the British School of Archaeology in Athens, contemporaneous owners and managers of the Knossos site.

Evans had given the site to them some years previously.

Villa Ariadne, Evans home there, was now part of the school.

Boys from Stowe school were in attendance at one lecture and tour conducted by Evans himself at age 85, walking with a stick, remembered by Ventris, who was present.

The stick was undoubtedly the cane Evans carried all his life to assist him with his short-sightedness and night blindness.

He named the stick Prodger.

Ventris was 14.

Evans held up tablets of the unknown scripts for the audience to see.

During the interview period following the lecture Ventris confirmed that Linear B was as yet undeciphered, and determined to decipher it.