Believed to date from 1700 BC the “Phaistos Disk” has been described by one of the researchers studying it as first Minoan "CD-ROM" for its shape and hard-coded data. It was found in Phaistos ...

The Phaistos disk from circa 1700 B.C. The signs were not engraved using a stylus but rather pressed onto the wet clay using molds or seals in a kind of ancient typesetting.

A LANGUAGE expert claims to have decoded an ancient Greek relic that has baffled researchers for over a century. The Phaistos Disc has a diameter about as long as your hand and is decorated on both… ...

Believed to be the world's first printed document, the Phaistos Disc was unearthed 100 years ago. Andrew Robinson explains why this remarkable object remains undeciphered. The Phaistos Disc, a 15 ...

Phaistos Disk is a clay plate-like objected dating by as far as 2000 BC. The symbols covering the disk have mystified researchers since it was discovered in 1908.

The Phaistos disc front. Disc of fired clay covered on both sides with a spiral of stamped symbols, c.15 cm, c.1700-1600 BC. Minoan art. Heraklion Archaeological Museum Crete.

Name: Phaistos Disk. What it is: A fired clay disk inscribed with symbols that have never been deciphered. Where it is from: The ancient Minoan civilization on the Mediterranean island of Crete.

The search for the truth starts in the ancient Cretan palace complexes of Phaistos. In 1908, the “Phaistos Disc” was discovered by the Italian archaeologist Luigi Pernier.

Phaistos Disk: 3,000-year-old inscriptions from Crete that have never been deciphered. News. By Tom Metcalfe published 14 October 2024 None of the many interpretations of the Phaistos Disk's ...