Editing Michael Ventris (section)

==Architect and palaeographer==
[[File:Blue Plaque for Michael Ventris - geograph.org.uk - 884994.jpg|thumb|right|Ventris's home, 1952–1956, which he and his wife, Lois, also an architect, designed]]
After the war he worked briefly in Sweden, learning enough Swedish to communicate with scholars.<ref name=chad2/> Then he came home to complete his architectural education with honours in 1948<ref>{{cite book | first=Harold | last=Oxbury | title=Great Britons: twentieth-century lives | location=Oxford; New York | publisher=Oxford University Press | year=1985 | page=338}}</ref> and settled down with Lois working as an architect. He designed schools for the Ministry of Education. He and his wife personally designed their family home, 19 North End, [[Hampstead]].<ref name=chad3>{{harvnb|Chadwick|1990|p=3}}.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Designs for the architects' house and garden, 19 North End, Hampstead, London: site plan and floor plans |url=https://www.ribapix.com/Designs-for-the-architects-house-and-garden-19-North-End-Hampstead-London-site-plan-and-floor-plans_RIBA97140 |access-date=2022-09-24 |website=RIBApix |language=en}}</ref> Ventris and his wife had two children: a son, Nikki (1942–1984), and a daughter, Tessa (born 1946).<ref>{{citation | author=ohk | title=The Ventris Papers | year=2006 | publisher=School of Advanced Studies, University of London | url=http://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/330/1/Ventris_11%2006_erepository%20(2).pdf}}</ref>

Ventris continued with his efforts on Linear B, discovering in 1952 that it was an archaic form of Greek.